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Software Archaeology: Reading Old Code as Historical Evidence
Old source code can be read as historical evidence: it preserves design choices, constraints, workarounds, interfaces, and assumptions that conventional documentation often omits.
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Old source code can be read as historical evidence: it preserves design choices, constraints, workarounds, interfaces, and assumptions that conventional documentation often omits.
A living archive should expose provenance, revision, and uncertainty instead of pretending the historical record arrived finished.