Re: Yet Another Great Idea

I think the idea would be worth a trial and see if it is useful. As others have mentioned, inline source code and URLs could cause problems. I'm also a little concerned (until proven otherwise) about the possible processor usage. OTOH, people were concerned about the processor usage for OCR, and that turned out to be largely a non-issue.

I don't personally have any real feel for whether this is a good idea or not. Generally that means to me that it should be tried (maybe several different ways) and see if something comes of it.

A variant of the concept that seems that it would hold promise would be some form of "obfuscation index". This might be based on the number of mis-spellings, or the amount of punctuation or density of punctuation or some such. But to get the numbers right, you might want to know the base language as a starting point.

        Loren Received on Tue Aug 28 12:50:01 2007