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From: Gary Wheeler <gwheeler@foxboro.com>
Subject: Re: ADvance 1.01
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:22:00 -0500
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Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
> Is anyone useing ADvance 1.01 from IC&C? Any thoughts on it?

We tried using it to reverse-engineer some existing Smalltalk code. 
Were disappointed that to do so required a significant amount of
"manual" interaction with ADvance, in order to get it to the point where
it could help us understand the existing application.  You had to spend
a significant amount of time examining the code in order to know what
definitions, etc to put in the Comments sections, before ADvance could
really start showing something useful.  The chapter on
reverse-engineering does sort of hint of this.
However, I agree with the previous reply, in it would seem to be a very
useful tool when used in the "forward" direction.

Gary Wheeler
The Foxboro Company

