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100% agree. One of my friends, in her first software engineering role, was handed a binder from 1987 and told to update some things. Other coworkers had intera
by civilian 4y ago
100% agree. One of my friends, in her first software engineering role, was handed a binder from 1987 and told to update some things.
Other coworkers had interacted with the system a little, but not extensively. It was a bunch of C for (rock & ore) mining software. It was intimidating and it took time, but she cracked it, and then happily (& justifiably) bragged that she added features to code that had been written before she was born!
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoI'd be proud if I were the original author, too. My code lived long enough that someone who wasn't even born when I wrote it was able to add features to it.