Re: Data-driven application --> the data is essentially "machine code" to the application, right?

>  Have you ever “reverse engineered” data? That is, have you reverse
engineered data to produce a higher level language?

By definition to "reverse engineer" code  one must already know the
higher-level language which is the target of this reverse engineering.


Thanks,

Dimitre

On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 6:28 AM Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
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> Suppose you have data that drives an application. Maybe the data is
> something like this:
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> <Document>
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>     <item>data1</item>
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>     <item>data2</item>
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>     <item>data3</item>
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> </Document>
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> The application performs this loop:
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> 1. read the next piece of data
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> 2. perform an action based on the data
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> 3. if no more data then done else goto 1.
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> That is how a CPU behaves, right? So the data is essentially “machine
> code” to the application, right?
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> The data could be a list of XPath expressions. Then the XPath expressions
> are essentially machine code, right?
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> Machine code is usually produced by a compiler. That is, a higher level
> language is compiled into machine code. Have you created a higher level
> language which you “compile” into data that then drives an application?
> What is the higher level language?
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> Have you ever “reverse engineered” data? That is, have you reverse
> engineered data to produce a higher level language?
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> /Roger
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