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From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Summary: Restructuring and Reverse Engineering.
Keywords: Reverse Engineering
Message-ID: <1991May28.074855.5584@weyrich.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 91 07:48:55 GMT
References: <1991May25.095806.3732@weyrich.UUCP> <1789@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>
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In article <1789@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer) writes:
>In article <1991May25.095806.3732@weyrich.UUCP> orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net
>writes:
>
>> MY CONCLUSIONS:$(I found no comments on successful reverse engineering
>> products beyond%(simple cross-reference generators and flow-chart
>> generators.'(Restructur ing is widely done; [...]
>
>The bit of Kevin's response that Orville posted
[...]
>doesn't seem to say so, but our (mine and Kevin's) research work within the
>REDO project (Esprit project 2487) is aimed at producing **abstractions**.
>Our research has always been successful and ERGO we have successful reverse
>engineering tools which produce abstractions from the code. That is somewhat
>different from `simple cross-reference generators and flow-chart generators'
>(fume! fume! gnash! gnash!).

Sorry if I misinterpreted what Kevin said, and misrepresented your work.
It sounds very interesting, and just the sort of thing I was looking for.

I sent all respondants a copy via e-mail of what I intended to post
a week before I posted, in order for them to verify that I had not
misrepresented their comments. Sorry if Kevin's copy got lost somehow.

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