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It's surprisingly hard to fundamentally change a program that big.
Most changes are fairly minor and leave the basic structure unchanged.
That hack recognized specific syntax. Any change in the wrong place
would break it.
So a trap door could look at the large-scale structure using
unification to do pattern matching, Then it would be able to adapt
automatically to many localised changes.
Who knows. It is an imponderable.
The reason I am not interested in focusing on this problem, which is
conceivable, is that (1) it seems unlikely and (2) we face other
problems that are just as bad and that are real for certain.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
