I open it up and the first thing I see is a comment with a changelog showing a long list of dates and author initials.
Oh I know, you think documentation is a good thing, but:
Somebody’s initials from ten years ago isn’t helping anything The big long list tells me nobody’s actually taking out the trash It tells me we probably don’t have change control or documentation where it actually matters It’s probably just the tip of the iceberg, and I’m going to find a submerged glacier of frozen code that has been stuck in time from 2008, and the