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There was a post on HN about Oracle's DB2 code being completely in C and fully unitelligible. Only an insane suite of semi integration tests allows them to main

There was a post on HN about Oracle's DB2 code being completely in C and fully unitelligible. Only an insane suite of semi integration tests allows them to maintain it, albeit in the most inefficient way.

tjalfi 8y ago
Is [0] the comment you are referring to? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941