From: aminer68@gmail.com   
      
   Hello..   
      
      
   Read again about more of my philosophy about reverse engineering..   
      
   I am a white arab from Morocco, and i think i am smart since i have also   
   invented many scalable algorithms and algorithms..   
      
      
   Simply pulling a piece of software through a decompiler does not directly   
   yield easily readable code for several reasons.   
      
   First of all, names of variables and functions are not kept through the   
   compilation process, so the decompiler will assign generic names. It is much   
   harder to read code that looks like "f8s6ex2(i37zc, sk1eo)" than it is to read   
   "CalculatePrice(articleId,    
   amount)".   
      
   Secondly, a compiler has a variety of optimization tricks that it will use   
   during compilation to make the code more efficient. A decompiler will return   
   this "optimized" code, which will look a lot less readable than the original.   
      
   Just compiling the Delphi mode of freepascal source code with optimizations   
   (-O2 and up) and stripping all debug and profile information, and apply   
   smartlinking, will make it almost    
   un-decompilable.  Not only FPC, but also Delphi.    
      
   The level of software reverse complexity is different according to different   
   program languages. generally speaking, compiled language reverse engineering   
   is more difficult than interpreted language. in compiled languages, I think   
   that C++ or the Delphi    
   mode of Freepascal reverse engineering is the most difficult job. why? because   
   it is very hard to transform assembly language into high level language(C++)   
   or to Delphi mode of freepascal as i am also explaining above.   
      
   So in reverse engineering there is almost no way to re-create the  Delphi mode   
   of freepascal or Delphi source code from the binary.   
      
      
   Thank you,   
   Amine Moulay Ramdane.   
      
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