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                                The Lost Code

I just got a call from Chuck, [1] whom I used to work with. It seems he needs
to recompile a program I wrote years ago to a new platform but alas, he can't
find all the source code to it. Specificially, he can't find the source code
to a library I wrote it links against.

So I checked my system here. I'm surprised I don't have a copy of the library
source code around. Granted, it's a very old version of a library I'm still
working on, but I thought I would have had a copy of it.

I search around and find a 300M compressed archive of everything I had on the
old development machine I did the coding on.

No luck there either!

You might think this is an isolated incident, but it's not. It happened to us
once before years ago where we lost all the source code to a client's
project. It happens. Code slips through the cracks.

[1] http://www.armigeron.com/people/chuck/

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