From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:   
   > Adam  writes:   
      
   > Additional books:   
   > Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1995 anniversary edition!)   
   >   (He's the "father of the /360")   
      
   I read that years ago, back when I expected to have a career in   
   programming.  (Local author!)   
      
   > Hayakawa, General Semantics   
   > William Kent, Data and Reality - Basic assumptions in Data Processing   
   >   Reconsidered   
      
   Thanks for the recommendations!  I'll have to look for all of them   
   at the library.   
      
   >> Back in my TRS-80 days I developed a little skill in understanding   
   >> object code (through a disassembler), for things like the DOS and   
   >> apps where the assembler source wasn't available to me.   
   >   
   > I've been de_compiling_ parts of programs for fun and for profit.   
      
   I gather decompiling (as opposed to disassembling) still involves a   
   lot of guesswork.  Can you recommend any decent decompilers?   
      
   For a while I was part of the team working on the JL2005B/C/D driver   
   for gphoto2.  I was on the "dirty room" end of reverse engineering   
   the OEM driver, so I dealt with piles of disassemblies of the   
   Windows driver.  At one point I had to tell the "clean room" end   
   that only the bottom seven bits of a particular byte were   
   significant, but I couldn't suggest any code for that, even though   
   99% of C programmers would have taken care of it the same way.   
      
   Adam   
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