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I'm vaguely fascinated by software archaeology as in "deepness in the sky" for eg. COBOL and PHP bore me, but I can imagine getting really into say 500 year old software. If I were born in 2700, I'd be a software archeologist maybe.
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I hope that Internet Historian/Archaeologist/Anthropologist is a job that I can get paid to do some day 😤.
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500 year old programs would be indecipherable without radical life extension. You'd spend all your time just learning the macros ("high level structure").
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I love that term. Any senior developer who has had the privilege of working on a legacy code base knows exactly what Vinge means. Dig or build from scratch? IMO, this will only become more relevant as blockchains mature, where dependable, reliable, and proven are measured in $.
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