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"Duerfeldt, Mark" wrote:
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> Has anyone ever heard of the term "schrouded" in the sense used below?
> (Please forgive the passive voice; I didn't write this!)
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> "If the software is written in an interpreted or real-time compiled
> language, move the schrouded or raw source."
>
> I thought perhaps the word was "shrouded", but I'm hearing that the original
> author claims it's correct the way it is. I'm not a programmer, so I looked
> on the Internet, but the only instances I found were a misspelled "shroud"
> usage.
>
> Anyone??
I've seen 'shrouded' used this way, to mean code that has been garbled
so you can use it but not modify it easily. Methinks your author has
nisspelled the word.
