decompilation as archiving?

[Richard]

In article <EDC5D417-CCD1-4870-833D-E3822E3AE144 at neurotica.com>,
    Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>  writes:

>    Back in the early days of computing, some of the *smartest people  
> on the planet* worked on this stuff.  Now, though, every drooling  
> moron who thinks he can make more money writing Windows apps than  
> flipping burgers can pirate a copy of Microsoft's Visual Whatever-it- 
> is-this-week garbage and is suddenly a "programmer".

The most recent iteration of their development environment is
permanently free :-).  So there's no need to pirate Microsoft's Visual
Whatever-it-is-this-week.
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