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What I like about this code is how much direct it is. No fancy abstraction. Brutally to the point with switch() and if() and that’s it!

• ddtaylor 8y ago
  These archive.org people are really awesome.
  • brailsafe 8y ago
    Who is involved from archive.org?
    • ddtaylor 8y ago
      I meant the community of people at archive.org - but also the staff building the tools are awesome and their stance on abandon-ware.
• munificent 8y ago
  This code was automatically decompiled, though, wasn't it? The original is likely quite different.
  • crocal 8y ago
    I don’t think it is vastly different in terms of program structure. They lost variable names and maybe some optimized intermediary calculations, but functional calls and branches are usually preserved through decomp (unless some compiler optims have been activated)
    • aleden 8y ago
      Could you provide an example to corroborate your claim?
      • crocal 8y ago
        This, maybe: https://github.com/avast-tl/retdec/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/avast-tl/retdec/blob/master/README.md There is a talk presentation linked in there that gives nice explanations and examples. I used to do a lot of decompilation of Java apps back in the days. It’s easier to decompile but still, all intermediary variable names disappeared ^^.