There is some very shady SEO going on here. The French translation link goes to a Wordpress blog with a very bad translation of the introduction. The root of the translation website is a completely unrelated Dutch used car website.
Other pages on the translation blog follow the same pattern: an old webpage (this HN entry is from 2009, but other pages go back to 2000) is edited years later to link back to a bad translation in some random language.
This is very far from my area of expertise, so I'm curious to know if this is well-known, and if those pages were hacked or if this was inserted by the owner himself.
EDIT: This is fascinating. I'm finding dozens of similar blogs, with links spanning at least a thousand hosts, which I'm assuming were hacked. This is a big network, with sophisticated wording designed to look as innocent as possible.
The content seems to be written by a hobbyist decompiler developer. Unfortunately, the state of the art that it presents seems to rely heavily on the Program Transformation Wiki pages, which appear to have become rather defunct (its pages, on further research, appears to have been primarily maintained by Mike Van Emmerik, and both Van Emmerik and Cristina Cifuentes appears to have moved on from binary decompilation a while ago).
As a result, the academic state of the art that it's relying on is a decade out of date. While decompilation is in nowhere near a solved problem, there have been advances in variable and type recovery in academic literature that the author of these pages doesn't seem to be aware exists.
The content of the pages mostly seems to be the sort of basic material that I wouldn't even bother citing in a research paper. I'm not sure there's any information in there that you wouldn't find in, say, the dragon book.
Other pages on the translation blog follow the same pattern: an old webpage (this HN entry is from 2009, but other pages go back to 2000) is edited years later to link back to a bad translation in some random language.
This is very far from my area of expertise, so I'm curious to know if this is well-known, and if those pages were hacked or if this was inserted by the owner himself.
EDIT: This is fascinating. I'm finding dozens of similar blogs, with links spanning at least a thousand hosts, which I'm assuming were hacked. This is a big network, with sophisticated wording designed to look as innocent as possible.