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True fact: The main reason we didn't include DB2, is indeed because none of us have any direct experience with it. All the other jokes were informed by hands-on
by colinstrickland 16y ago
True fact: The main reason we didn't include DB2, is indeed because none of us have any direct experience with it. All the other jokes were informed by hands-on experience.
- NickPollard 16y agoI worked for IBM for a year a while back as a student, my predecessor had at one point worked on some obscure DB2 fixes. He regaled me once with a story of how when looking for the root cause of a bug, he found a comment saying something along the lines of: // Quick hack, will fix properly soon! It was dated sometime in the 80's.
- alttab 16y agoAt some point I interfaced with a DB2 product and some of the code was seriously 30 years old and had goto's as a best practice... really. Really.
- bkmartin 16y agoYes, I believe it. I've come across the same. But, something to remember, that code was written 30 years ago, and its still running. And the best part, its could be 30 year old code running on the latest and greatest hardware. GoTo isn't the right way to do coding, but at one point in time it was all a programmer had. But it still works, like it or not (maintainable or not).