Towards an object oriented representation of structured code

The issue of reverse engineering to an object oriented representation is examined; a particular contention is whether the object oriented world of data and associated procedures is a realisable target. It is shown that the problem becomes one of identifying entities which can be encapsulated, rather than the usual one of separating process from data. The requirement for a neural network and rule based mechanism for function extraction is identified. A high level and non-rigorous approach for movement to an object oriented form is illustrated