[jeremiahwv]

> An old work of philosophy does not describe the thing you are meant to be learning about. It was created by the thing you are meant to be learning about, much like watching a video from skater-Aristotle’s GoPro. And the value proposition is that with this high resolution Aristotle’s-eye-view, you can infer the motions.

tldr; read old philosophy to learn how to reason, read new physics to learn the results of reasoning.

[Raphmedia]

So, in a metaphorical way, reading old philosophy isn't about reading a legacy code base. It's about reading the git history and project documentation.

[jeremiahwv]

Hmm, I'd say more like reading the (original) source code of git itself to learn about Linus and his coding"philosophy" [0] vs reading a modern tutorial about how to use git.

[0] I haven't done this so not putting any value prop on this specific example.