There's an annoying stigma in our industry against old code but I love to hear the stories. I know COBOL programmers get their tweets by teletype, but I hope we hear from them
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Look at all that horribly outdated code out there, like everything that runs our banking system, weapons, email, computer operating systems, health care system, cars, planes, space program and internet!
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It is precisely so that we don’t have to do that that most of us switch jobs every few years.
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Newish codebase, but there are a few things in our codebase still named “parse” because the backend used to be Parse
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there's probably some ancient php/perl in
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There are assembler modules I work on that were written in late 60’s to support Apollo. Today we run a good chunk of Western civilization ( such as it is ).
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I’ve written a patch for htcondor. Htcondor is as old as me
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The policy management system has code from as early as 1983 and is still running.
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Because it was built right! Cool!
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Some Perl Stuff for Spidering Websites, circa 2004
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