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I did some work for a company that had 100+ banks running accounting software developed in Visual Basic in the early 90s. Unfortunately, this experience, suppo
by wallace_f 10y ago
I did some work for a company that had 100+ banks running accounting software developed in Visual Basic in the early 90s.
Unfortunately, this experience, supporting obsolete, spaghetti-code-nightmare, opened my eyes to the world that business is done in a much dirtier way than how I imagined growing up.
- walrus01 10y agoWilling to bet you $5 that the spaghetti code accounting software written in VB in the early 1990s is actually a GUI front end on top of an AS/400 or an IBM system/360 thing that's now running in emulation on a "mainframe".
- wallace_f 10y agoIt was just a stand-alone application fully-coded in VB.
- orionblastar 10y agoShowcase ODBC is what we used to talk to Big Iron databases. People could not learn the IBM Mainframe or AS/400 systems. So we made a VB GUI frontend using Showcase ODBC to contect to the database. It was a lot easier that way.