software archaeology

noun

Definitions

  1. The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part…

    The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for software archaeology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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