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Subject: Re: source code can be retrieved from an engine

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:00:11 02/04/06

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On February 04, 2006 at 08:30:51, James Swafford wrote:

>On February 04, 2006 at 01:53:28, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>
>>You said: "100% correct decompilation is PROVABLY impossible"
>>
>>I understood you meant 'for any program',
>>but I suppose you meant 'for all programs'.
>
>
>That's generally what that statement means.  The halting problem
>is proven to be uncomputable, though you can certainly figure it
>out for some programs.
>
>--
>James

A program cannot compute the halting problem.
It does not thing that it is not possible to build another tool that is not a
program that can compute the halting problem.

Uri



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