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I somehow get the feeling that this wasn't so much designed as evolved. There probably was (maybe still is) some kludgy program on a mainframe somewhere, writte

• agumonkey 6y ago
  Slight nitpick anecdata: one of the best utility program I ever had the pleasure to use was an AS400 terminal based program for national tax office. I don't want to oversell but it was the nicest software tool I ever used in a job period. Those old things were so lean, so fast, so cheap, zero fancy feature, zero presentation, zero confusion. And the software used every cycle to either make you go on, or then check or even prepare fixes (think live typecheck suggestion in your IDE but for accounting input operators). I was brutally shocked by the contrast between everything I've been fed and seen in college (that said these were the j2ee 4 days .. so peak sadness). Of course by the time I left there was some grand plan to replace it with modern html/css/js evil reincarnation that was slower, and less useful.. basically going back from your old makita impact driver to the shiny new bluetooth connected released yesterday that will fail and require the v2 before being barely useful. tl;dr: glory to old terminal application made with skills.