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but legally you're not doing a clean room implementation, you're looking at the original and creating a new functional replacement

Interesting legal question: if Claude reverse engineers the original and writes a spec, and ChatGPT implements the spec without seeing the original, is that a clean-room implementation? Asking for a friend with a trillion parameters

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In your code, you don't have to use exceptions to indicate a failure but you still have to catch exceptions thrown by third-party libraries (or their dependencies).

It is not easy to stay away from exceptions if your language supports them.

"Job by distribution" was no secret and it is a well-known thing among people from post-soviet countries. Graduates were obliged to work at assigned place, usually for three years.