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Subject: Re: Binary newsgroups (was: new group for Atari ST software)
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 16:55:47 EST
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In article <17795@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, apteryx@ucbvax.UUCP writes:
> >1) Binary isn't retargetable...
> >2) Binary isn't adaptable...
> >3) Binary isn't fixable...
> Neither is source, if you don't have a compiler for that language.
> I bet there are a bunch of Pascal programmers who don't use C, and
> vice versa.  I don't have either language (I have Forthmacs), and
> quite a lot of my useful software has been binaries from the net.
> 	Brian Peterson

But source in any language you know can be translated to another language
you know.  It just makes the retargeting and adapting more work.

Have you ever disassembled a binary and recoded it?
--j.a.tainter