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A suite of Prolog tools for reverse-engineering and validating COBOL programs has been developed as part of the ESPRIT REDO project [8]. These tools produce functional abstractions, object-oriented designs and documentation from raw source code, with the aim of improving comprehensibility and maintainability, and this article discusses the tools and aspects of their programming.
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Breuer, P.T. (1992). The art of computer un-programming: Reverse engineering in Prolog. In: Comyn, G., Fuchs, N.E., Ratcliffe, M.J. (eds) Logic Programming in Action. LPSS 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 636. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55930-2_20
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