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There's a really big power law for this though. Some of my code has been running for close to 15 years now and I fully expect it to run at least that long into

by WJW 6y ago

There's a really big power law for this though. Some of my code has been running for close to 15 years now and I fully expect it to run at least that long into the future. At the same time I also have written software that got decommissioned after a year because the business division was spun down. The highest value code I ever wrote was probably a 50-100 line script that collected some data requested for due diligence and which eventually clinched a >200 million USD investment round for the company. That script was never used again after that.

pdimitar 6y ago
Hah. Same experience here. When I get asked at interviews "what is your recent work you are most proud of?" and I can't bring myself to cite my Elixir or Rust work (even if I did some pretty solid work there in the last years) and the first thing that immediately springs to mind is how I actually invested two days in a shell script that did a job (making PDF invoices in a system that wasn't meant for that but the data was in the DB) that the management thought is going to take 3 months. Since then I changed my LinkedIn headline to: "Solving problems with technology". That's what people care about. Not which language we use.