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From: ADLER1%BRANDEIS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: self-replicating program
Message-ID: <10921@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 19 Dec 87 15:45:28 GMT
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I enjoyed the recent posting of programs written in high level languages
whiich replicate their own source code. But upon reflection, it occurred
to me that what I would really love to see would be a program which
replicates the source code of other programs. How often has one obtained
a copy of executable code with no source and no documentation ? It would
be great to have a program which could throw together source code which
could plausibly have given rise to the given executable, preferably in
a choice of higher level languages.

Has anyone ever encountered such a facility ?

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