<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention">@<span>foone</span></a></span> heh, I looked into it – ghidra's decompiler (classified release, 2006, <a href="https://youtu.be/kx2xp7IQNSc?t=1625" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/kx2xp7IQNSc?t=1625</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) supposedly predates hex-rays (public release, 2008), but their development would have overlapped, and it feels weird to credit a non-public release. I'd probably credit Ciffuentes's DCC (1994, <a href="https://yurichev.com/mirrors/DCC_decompilation_thesis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yurichev.com/mirrors/DCC_decom</span><span class="invisible">pilation_thesis.pdf</span></a>) as the common ancestor, but I think C could have been independently chosen as a widely-known, specified, low-level, human-readable language.</p>
