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by ConceptJunkie 2767 days ago
> My recommendation is not to try to understand the code per se, but understand the business that the code was being used in/by.

You're absolutely right, but the problem comes when the code itself is the only authoritative documentation of what the code does, and in a lot of cases, the only authoritative documentation (or even the only documentation, period) of what the code is supposed to do!