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I've created a new job description: Software Archaeologist
1 point by jgamman on Jan 31, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
for reasons too depressing to go into - i spent a large chunk of time running someone else's collection (deck?, tree? what's the collective noun for spreadsheets?) of spreadsheets. I got to the point that I could see the evolution from v1 to v10+ and it wasn't pretty.

Here's to all the software Indiana Joneses out there - my condolences.



In our neighbourhood we've been calling working with particularly difficult legacy code software archaeology: where it's not not clear what some piece of software was supposed to do. http://media.pragprog.com/articles/mar_02_archeology.pdf




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