On , Peter Louwen (2:280/901@fidonet) wrote: 
 RS> A general purpose decompiler is the Holy Grail of tyro programmers. 
 > I seem to recall one written by Scott Gutherie, though I doubt whether 
hat
 > was intended to be in circulation.
Peter...
  As I said, there are a number of them out there, none of them generally 
useful. Note that this is not true of all programming languages, however! 
There are commercial decompilers for several specific languages which lend 
themselves more to successful analysis than C or C++.
 > Idiom problem: what's a "tyro" programmer ?
  From the Random House Webster's College Dictionary...
"tyro: A beginner in learning anything, a novice."
...IOW, a newbie. 
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