Talk:Disassembly

I'm thinking this page should basically be a link to disassembler, apart from defining the term as both the output (noun) and the process of producing it (verb).

I'd like to merge the other two concepts (information loss, usefulness of interactivity and symbol table) with the disassembler article. --Mike Van Emmerik 3 July 2005 12:37 (UTC)

This topic should probably redirect to disassembler now, as decompilation does to decompiler, with an extra sentence in disassembler noting the use as a noun. --Mike Van Emmerik 21:47, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The extra sentence is already done --Mike Van Emmerik 22:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I significantly disagree that this should be merged with disassembler, or that it should be only a redirect. Many of us automatically include computer code in our concept of disassembly. Some of us even to the point of exclusively thinking about computer code. However, disassembly with respect to computer code is not the most common usage of the word. It is only used that way within computer (software) engineering/programming. Even just moving over to the hardware side of the fence has it take on multiple possible meanings. In other words, the disassembly of machine language to assembly language is a small subset of disassembly. We should not arbitrarily limit this entry to a small subset of its meaning. After all, the Wikipedia is intended as a general reference, not a computer language specific reference on software engineering. --Makyen


 * OK, I'm convinced; we should not ignore the likely majority of users who don't think of the narrow, computer use of this term. I suggest a stub, with a link to disassembler the only computer related content. There will be very little left, but at least there will be a place to add ordinary disassembly content if someone wants. --Mike Van Emmerik 23:22, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Dont merge
please? --Dan|(talk) 10:26, 27 September 2006 (UTC)