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Reverse engineering of legacy code exposed

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International Conference on Software Engineering archive
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 327 - 331

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-708-1

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Bruce W. Weide	Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Wayne D. Heym	Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Joseph E. Hollingsworth	Department of Computer Science, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN

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IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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