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What is the result of a programmer's work? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 59 points 1 year ago (11 children)

An architect's building can last several hundred years. A programmers genius logic becomes obsolete in three years.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's what's always amused me about the "code re-use" imperative. I started my career with Visual Basic 3 -- what good could anything I wrote back then possibly do me today?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I work at a multi-bilion dollar company that would crash to a halt if our Cobol + assembly language Unisys system written in the 80s went offline. It's hard to predict what will become difficult to replace, but some code has extraordinary staying power.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I wrote a web app circa 2001 (Visual Basic 6 and Classic ASP) that is still in use. Unremarkable except that this app was a graphical UI front end atop a clunky mainframe app from the 1970s. The fact that my app is still running means this mainframe app is still running.

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