Where and who is Waldo?

You might remember the childrens book that challenged you to find Waldo somewhere hidden in an information overloaded picture. Software development and the maintenance of legacy code adds another twist to this challenge. What can I do if I do not find him? Well, you seriously hope that he left as many clues as possible in the form of documentation, in the code that is. Programmer Waldo, for the purpose of this document, is the manifestation of all the other programmers in the world including the next generation of programmers. Waldo also includes yourself sometime in the future because quite often it is difficult to reuse code that you wrote in the past. Had the Y2K programmers considered Waldo in their development they would not have been so infamous.