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Reading computer program code and documentation written by others is, we aretold, one of the best ways to learn the art of writing intelligible andmaintainable code and documentation. The software resurrection exercise,introduced in this paper, requires a motivated learner to compile and test ahistorical release (e.g. 20 years old) version of a well maintained and widelyadopted open source software on a modern hardware and software platform. Thisexercise concludes by writing a critique based on issues encountered whilecompiling and testing a historical software release on a hardware and softwareplatform that could not have been foreseen at the time of release. The learneris also required to fix the issues as a part of the software resurrectionexercise. The seemingly pointless exercise of resurrecting a historicalsoftware allows motivated learners to experience the pain and joy of softwaremaintenance which is essential for understanding the factors that contribute tointelligibility and maintainability of program code and documentation. Theconcept of software resurrection exercise is illustrated using a version of theSQLite database engine that was released 20 years ago. This illustration showsthat software engineering principles (or programming pearls) emerge when ahistorical software release is adapted to run successfully on a modernplatform. The software resurrection exercise also has the potential to layfoundations for a lifelong willingness to explore and learn from existingprogram code.

Software Resurrection: Discovering Programming Pearls by Showing Modernity to Historical Software