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What time period and area did you come across this usage? As I ever saw it used, 'reverse engineering' generally referred to creating docs from executables or w
by knome 1y ago
What time period and area did you come across this usage? As I ever saw it used, 'reverse engineering' generally referred to creating docs from executables or watching network protocols rather than from source.
- unnah 1y agoBack in the 1990's. As an example, back then the Rational Rose design software had a feature to generate UML diagrams from existing source code, and it was called "reverse engineering". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose