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I am reminded of a conversation I once had at Microsoft about some upcoming rocket science technology that wouldn't ship version 1 for a year or two — WPF? DAO?

by wrs 7y ago

I am reminded of a conversation I once had at Microsoft about some upcoming rocket science technology that wouldn't ship version 1 for a year or two — WPF? DAO? some such thing — and one of the managers referred dismissively to "legacy code". To which one of the others present responded, "to be clear, by 'legacy code' you're referring to all existing code?" I'd also like to point out that in my experience actual "engineers" tend to pick the most boring possible technology to do something. Because it probably works. (The really interesting jobs are where even the most boring possible technology to accomplish it doesn't exist yet.)

tempguy9999 7y ago
> ...actual "engineers" tend to pick the most boring possible technology to do something. Because it probably works. That's because decent engineers understand that their job is not tech but business - tech is only a means to an end, and that end is to help business thrive. I've been in the opposite situation of a bad dev pushing every big-data tech he took a fancy to, and the management not being clue-ful enough to understand where it was leading them. Big data frameworks are expensive in every way, and become heavy negative cost if the data is not big.