This is the best thing I read for ages. I work with legacy systems all the time, lately mostly CRUD web apps, but I have debugged myself through pages of Excel

This is the best thing I read for ages. I work with legacy systems all the time, lately mostly CRUD web apps, but I have debugged myself through pages of Excel macros, database drivers in enterprise systems and some code that was almost as old as me, and 100% agree with what you have written. Bookmarking this post for future reference.