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If a system is not really changed a lot, if the attitude is to keep what is currently working and avoid risk of anything breaking through change, then I ask: Wh

If a system is not really changed a lot, if the attitude is to keep what is currently working and avoid risk of anything breaking through change, then I ask: What is that "test of time"? What is it, that needs to be stood here? If nothing new is introduced to the system, then most likely it would still work in thousands of years. That is no achievement in itself. All deterministic software does this.

IncRnd 5y ago
> All deterministic software does this. That stands to reason, yet much software is decomissioned or replaced every year. All of it deterministic software. Perhaps the software is expensive to maintain or use, doesn't adequately meet the needs of the business, is error-prone, or any one of a million reasons. COBOL works at the heart of our industry and our society, despite COBOL being an ancient crufty language. In the same way that may of us never see our hearts or become heart surgeons, I may never meet a COBOL program or a COBOL programmer. I am still thankful they are there, and I recognize they serve a function other software likely would not.