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One interesting idea in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky was the job of "code archaeologist". A far future society, they were saddled with ongoing maintenan
by CWuestefeld 5y ago
One interesting idea in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky was the job of "code archaeologist". A far future society, they were saddled with ongoing maintenance of centuries-old code, and needed to be able to figure out what those historical programmers were trying to do.
- Piskvorrr 5y agoHeld that title (unofficially) in a company. Figuring out "what did we mean by this, twenty years ago" was already a nontrivial task, even with a theoretically similar tech stack.