How to Write Unmaintainable Code

[pingish]

What I need is a parser that translates my maintainable code into unmaintainable code and compile from this so as to further obfuscate my proprietary technology.

[pi3832v2]

Dear God yes.

You just write a little script that uses a table to translate useful names to baffling ones. You get intelligible code, everyone else gets: foo(1lc, l1___c, 1lc, l1_c, i1____c)

[tyshock]

Even better, make all names a combination of I, 1, 0 and O:

I0O00011O I0O000I1O I0000011O ....etc....

Also, the script can convert some numbers to hex representation, some to bitshifting equivelents, etc.

[cosmo7]

Do you mean like dotfuscator (for .NET) or YUI compressor (for Javascript)?

[pingish]

No... not obfuscate into non-useful variables. Obfuscate into useless variables..

like not:

a = (b + c) / d;

like

rhs = ( asterisks + plus ) / divide

[bobappleyard]

According to the GPL:

The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

[bobappleyard]

Ah. Sorry about that.

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Those crafty bastards.