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I really, really wish that I had the source code I wrote back before Github was a thing. Most of that, though, was never in version control, and I have long sin
by bovermyer 7y ago
I really, really wish that I had the source code I wrote back before Github was a thing. Most of that, though, was never in version control, and I have long since lost the floppies it was stored on.
This post is inspiring me to go clean up my old repos on Github, and perhaps wax nostalgic about my previous works, even the awful ones.
- icedchai 7y agoI have stuff I wrote in the mid 90's. Mostly C code. It's horrible to look at. I wish I kept the earlier stuff from my Amiga days.
- sofaofthedamned 7y agoSame! Best programming I ever did was on the ST and Amiga.
- tclancy 7y agoAny reason why? I tried to do a bit on our C64 as a kid but . . . well, it's amazing I wound up as a developer after that experience.
- icedchai 7y agoYou had to be very careful programming the Amiga. There was multitasking, but no memory protection. If you wrote to a bad address (like a null pointer), you were staring at a "Guru Meditation" screen followed by a reboot.
- dpcx 7y agoI found code the other day while cleaning a disused drawer. Not on a floppy... on paper. Apparently, I had printed some Perl code from around 2003 that moved a bunch of files around on a Windows share for my employer at the time. It's surprisingly good code considering its age!