Kenneth <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> From what I've read, some 'text' editors can do this. Or would it require a 'hex
> editor'?  Or perhaps something like Notepad++, which apparently can open and
> display programs written in C, C++ etc?

I'm not sure you understand what program source code is. It's just ascii
text, like this very text I'm writing and posting here. It will look like
for example:

    int someFunction(int parameter)
    {
        return parameter + 1;
    }

Many programming languages are compiled to a binary file (usually containing
raw machine code, as well as slightly higher-level stuff like relocation
data and other kind of data for the dynamic linker.) Such compiled binary
files are not conversible back to the original source code.

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                                                          - Warp

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