• frezik@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    It can be viewed as a success. A bridge or building that only lasts five years wouldn’t be considered successful, especially if it took monumental effort to make it in the first place. For some reason, we don’t value that in software.

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      9 months ago

      I wrote a Classic ASP app in 1999 that placed a web UI atop a mainframe application that dated to the late '70s and allowed easy navigation of really enormous data structures. I learned last year that it’s still in use at that company; amazing not just because my code is still around but because that fucking mainframe code is still running.