On (16 Apr 97) Steve Westcot wrote to Quintin Oliver...
 SW> On , Quintin Oliver wrote to Kevin Sheetz :
 QO>  KS> How can a program be reverse engineered?
 QO> Well first if your serious about doing it then yell need 
 QO> the correct software i've got some decompiler software 
 QO> decompiles EXE and COM files to a C soure and them you can
 QO> use it in your Prog. Would you like it?
 SW> I thought decompiling was impossible with C or C++ because of the
 SW> complexity of variables and the like.  I read that in Snippits.
Decompilation to something particularly similar to the original source
code doesn't appear possible with present technology.  Decompilation to
SOME legal sorce code is possible.  It's a more or less open question
whether the result is of any real use or not.
    Later,
    Jerry.
... The Universe is a figment of its own imagination.
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