It's likely that enough infrastructure had changed that the script would not run successfully anyway. On the other hand it would have been excellent documentati

It's likely that enough infrastructure had changed that the script would not run successfully anyway. On the other hand it would have been excellent documentation about the system at a certain point in time. I say excellent, not because I assume it would have been well written, but because when it comes to these things I prefer code (any form of code, indeed) that I can be reasonably sure worked at some time over natural language documentation any time. I completely agree with Dr. House when he says he never asks the patient, because they lie all the time. Same with human written documentation.