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Creativity in code?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 01:48 AM EDT

You state:

See, some creativity is needed even to walk from point A to point B.
I disagree. Creativity in walking from point A to point B can be involved, but doesn't necessarily mean it is involved.

The fact that another example was given - in this case, a different computer language - speaks more towards the limitation requirements of the language applied. The logic is still the same, the language dictates how the logic is .... enunciated.

As for your questions, I decline to respond to them. They appear to be more Legally oriented. Perhaps someone else will be willing to take up such a discussion.

I'll stick to the discussion with whether or not a range check function is dictated by requirements, is something creative or is something of both.

And my software developer opinion is:

    While comments in the code can be quite creative, the code itself tends to be purely functional.
Limited creativity can be applied - but only because there is a small, finite set of logic that can be authored to achieve the same result. One can get much more creative if one doesn't mind authoring bloatware.... or logical paths that'll never evaluate true so they'll never run, etc.

How that plays out with regards Copyright Law? We get to see how it plays out in the various cases fought over it.

RAS

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