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Software Archaeology

Posted by timothy on from the keeping-bits-unburied dept.

Plug1 writes "Salon (day pass needed) has an article about preserving software for historical purposes. It discusses source code archiving, and the effect the DMCA is having on attempts to catalog and analyze legacy code. It will be a shame if in the future a wealth of information is locked away because knoweldge of the underlying technology is lost."

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  1. Re:Nestalgia by jbottero · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    FLAIMBAIT? It's an honest question!

  2. The past is history by mobiGeek · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It will be a shame if in the future a wealth of information is locked away because knoweldge of the underlying technology is lost.

    There is nothing to be learned from the past. Who cares what they did back then? Look at how ugly their cars were. Look how inefficient their industries were. They used to use mechanical gears to keep track of time!!!

    I say let the stuff go. Heck, its probably all written in archaic languages anyways like assembler and COBOL. [shudder]

    I mean, name one good piece of software today that is based on past technologies. Name one piece of software written in C, FORTRAN or Perl 4.

    Yah...didn't think you could.:-)

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