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Revision 7 . . September 11, 2001 1:01 am by Alan D
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Well written article. In addition some links to other minimalist or just simple programming languages would be nice.

An an article about Knuths general assembly language which he uses in his books 'The Art of Programming'.



It's also almost a perfect copy of http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

It doesn't have any copyright info, is this acceptable???

-AlanD?


You do not need to declare something copyright to make it copyright - it is by default. Thus, all web pages are by default copyright by their author.

However, my impression is that really trivial things (such as a brief summary of a language) cannot be copyrighted. So the article itself should be okay. The examples look a little more in-depth, were they lifted as well?

-Fuzzrock


Actually, I wrote the examples, short of the hello world one. As we type this, I am in the process of transmogrifying the page into something that less resembles the page it came from. Even if it's okay to lift, I don't feel comfortable just copying someone's work nearly outright.
-AlanD?


IANAL, but my understanding is that one cannot copyright information, only creative expression. I do not believe that
the bare language definition and C transliteration rules would meet this test, although I suppose the "Hello World" program just might. On the other hand, I am happy to explicitly credit the source and I've now done so. -HWR
issue resolved.
-Alan D

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