I once ported a 3rd party telecommunication middleware stack to a new OS. Every single function was 12 characters long, 4 fields of 3 characters each. Each fi

I once ported a 3rd party telecommunication middleware stack to a new OS. Every single function was 12 characters long, 4 fields of 3 characters each. Each field had meaning, but I wasn't given the decoder ring. That was not fun.