On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Pierre-Etienne Meunier <pierreetienne.meunier@gmail.com> wrote:

Well in this case I'd be really interested in seeing how the can tell the difference, be it only from a simple complexity theoretic point of view ! I understand they may look for common patterns in their compiler code to tell the difference between GHC's generated code and theirs, but pretending they can do it in this case only shows that Apple lawyers never communicate with the engineers.

I think it is more a matter of Jobs trying to find any way he could to quickly block Adobe's attempted end-run around his blockade against Flash apps.

While we can all acknowledge the technical impossibility of identifying the original source language of a piece of code, all they need is to raise the spectre of doubt, and they have practically gutted all concern of a cross platform development environment emerging, because no sound business plan can be built on "I hope my major and only possible distributor doesn't figure out what I'm doing!"

-Edward Kmett