I can’t shake the feeling we are inching closer to the programmer-archeologist from a deepness in the sky, where gluing together mystery meat is the only sensib

I can’t shake the feeling we are inching closer to the programmer-archeologist from a deepness in the sky, where gluing together mystery meat is the only sensible thing that still needs doing. “We should rewrite it all,” said Pham. “It’s been done,” said Sura, not looking up. She was preparing to go off-Watch, and had spent the last four days trying to root a problem out of the coldsleep automation. “It’s been tried,” corrected Bret, just back from the freezers. “But even the top levels of fleet system code are enormous. You and a thousand of your friends would have to work for a century or so to reproduce it.” Trinli grinned evilly. “And guess what—even if you did, by the time you finished, you’d have your own set of inconsistencies. And you still wouldn’t be consistent with all the applications that might be needed now and then.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9427225-pham-nuwen-spent-years-learning-to-program-explore-programming-went-back https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9427225-pham-nuwen-spent-ye...