>Exactly. Documentation is that stuff that tells you exactly what your application was like once upon a time.
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I've had several cases where I needed to convert cobol data. I don't know which was worse - when we had documentation (i.e. data division from some source that was using the table) or when we didn't. The first was obsolete each time, and it took me just as long to figure out where it differed, as it took to divine the columns from scratch.