Clean room? The point of clean room software engineering is that the expressive parts of software are at the organizational level, you know, the basically arbit

Clean room? The point of clean room software engineering is that the expressive parts of software are at the organizational level, you know, the basically arbitrary stuff that everyone has a case at being “the best way to structure a program”, so if you happen to have seen the source code you might have been influenced by some relationship between two classes that made sense and since Oracle’s lawyers are going to be breathing down your neck you had better go out of your way to avoid their ire. There is no such thing as “clean room painting” and it should be really obvious why that is…