Talk:Software archaeology

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A fact from Software archaeology appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that software archaeology uses software visualization and other techniques to understand poorly documented legacy software?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/August.

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The reference to the OOPSLA position paper seems to be broken. It points to a site on http://www.visibleworkings.com/archeology/position-papers.html that no longer seems to exist. I would like to suggest removing this link. --Freddygauss (talk) 05:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant writeup

Leaving it here for posterity: http://web.archive.org/web/20120112020354/http://wrttn.in/04af1a -- Wesha (talk) 22:23, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]