Re: Legacy scripts

Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> 
> [email protected] [[email protected]] quoth:
> *>
> *>Now, it doesn't hurt to point out that certain scripts were written
> *>X years ago, when there were no (or less) modules; that they were written
> *>for older versions of Perl, and that there might be CPAN modules that do
> *>the work as well.
> 
> The "A" is for Archive :)
> 
> Main Entry: 1ar-chive
> Function: noun
> Etymology: French & Latin; French, from Latin archivum, from Greek
> archeion government house (in plural, official documents), from archE
> rule, government
> : a place in which public records or historical documents are preserved;
> also : the material preserved -- often used in plural

Point taken, but the archive should seek to edify, not confuse. Consider
some cluebie happening across those old scripts, in the absence of
commentary about their age and relative value to other Ways Of Doing It.
That could lead to confusion. Archives are good. Annotated archives are
better. Just MHO, of course.

Rich
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