RE: RPG Decompilers (moved from CPF000)

I don't know that I think they are necessarily a terrible idea... 

The truth is I just happened to notice an add for them on iSeries
Network when I clicked on a link in an earlier post today about a
utility from Carsten.  So I followed the link to the decompiler vendor
website and was reading about it, and that got me to wondering what
other people might think about them.  I haven't seen a discussion on
decompilers for a long time.

Heck, I think if you can figure out how to do it, then you've really
done something. That seems like a bit of black magic to me since I doubt
that I'd be able to achieve a decompiler, even if I tried.



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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: RPG Decompilers (moved from CPF000)


On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Shannon O'Donnell wrote:

What do you think of these?
http://juggersoft.com/decompilers.htm

This is the same company that used to be called "SST Global" (in fact,
if 
you watch their animated logo in the upper-left corner of the home page,

it still says "SST Global" at the end of the animation sequence!)

These decompilers have been around for a long time already.  I believe 
(but don't quote me on this) that SST Global ended up buying out the old

SourceRetrieval.com as well.  So these have been around for ages.

Why, all of a sudden, after all these years, do you think they're a bad 
idea?