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tough choice? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I would genuinely love to find a job coding FORTRAN, mainly because it means I'd almost certainly be doing some kind of scientific computing. Way better than most tech jobs that involve boring CRUD work you don't care about at best, or actively making the world worse implementing the whims of some billionaire sociopath at worst.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Also, the code base will likely be pretty small. If something's made to be delivered on punch cards and run on devices that measure their memory in KB or maybe MB, it's not going to be a ton of code. Even if it's pure assembly, it's going to be easier than a huge automatically generated codebase.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Rollercoaster Tycoon has joined the chat.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Compared with any modern codebase that's still tiny.

    From what I can see Rollercoaster Tycoon was hand-written by a single person, so it by definition cannot be huge.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I wish that the code was open source, because it'd be super interesting to be able to look under the hood of a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon

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