On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:30:25 -0500, Kenneth wrote:

> What I would basically like to do is see the code the way the original
> developer saw it, while writing it (in whatever programming language
> that happened to be.)
> I might even learn a few things!

You have to be given the source code to see it this way - and that would 
be in text format.

There /are/ decompilers available, but they won't tend to include 
comments or even necessarily variable names the way the developer wrote 
the code.

If you have code from a complex program, I have found Source Navigator NG 
to be useful in dissecting the code to read and understand it - it's an 
open source tool (don't know if there's a Windows or Mac version, but it 
probably can be built for those platforms as it is open source itself).

Jim

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