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There is great value is maintaining old software, from an evolutionary perspective it is often the critical systems that have a reason to exist. An organism tha
by wrnr 7y ago
There is great value is maintaining old software, from an evolutionary perspective it is often the critical systems that have a reason to exist. An organism that has been around for a hundred years has a bigger change of surviving to the next day compared to something born yesterday. Its counter intuitive until you compare the life expectancy of an awk tree and a fruit fly.
Most principal software engineers I've known have been with the project since the beginning and live in symbiosis with the project.
- hoseja 7y ago>An organism that has been around for a hundred years has a bigger change of surviving to the next day compared to something born yesterday. This is extremely not true for modern humans. And possibly all humans too. (of course depending on how you define 'organism')
- jacques_chester 7y agoIt's a U-shaped mortality curve. More generally, many things show a Pareto power law distribution: if the thing has existed for 10 seconds, expected remaining life is 10 seconds. If it has existed for 2 days, expected remaining life is 2 days. And so on. It shows up in a lot of places.