Apple disallows D-Sources

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-05-07 09:13:46 -0400, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

> On Fri, 07 May 2010 08:09:08 -0400, Michel Fortin  
> <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> 
>> Most languages comes with a runtime. They just have to do some pattern  
>> matching looking for the runtime. Of course if you do things in secret  
>> with your own secret runtime and don't talk publicly about it, they may 
>>  never find out. They may also enforce this selectively against things  
>> they don't want (such as Flash), but this adds a high level of  
>> uncertainty (as if there wasn't already enough).
> 
> Can't you just strip the symbols from the executable?  I'm not familiar 
>  with iPhone development since I lack a Mac.

Yes you can. But they can just look at the code itself. If I was to 
take the compiled code of a few function of the D runtime and search 
for it, don't you think I'd easily identify most of the D programs out 
there?


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