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Electronic Archaeology (O'ReillyNet)
This lengthy O'Reilly Network article looks at tools for digging through old code.
"In the real world, most programmers spend most of their time going through code that's a hundred years old and extremely messy. If it ever was designed, the design document was lost long ago. It has evolved over the years. Hundreds of people have worked on it. And it appears most of them knew very little about programming. As a result, most professional programmers have to deal with badly designed, badly implemented, uncommented, incomprehensible blobs."
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