Living in the future

[redbird]

New Scientist is talking about possibly anomalous physics, but tucked into the article we have an early instance of the field that Vernor Vinge has dubbed "software archeology." (It's under the "Volunteer programmer" subhead.)

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Vinge's software archaeology is not a million miles from some of the code I've had to excavate and make sense of in my time.