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As someone who once was part of an outsourced team maintaining a COBOL system, I can attest to the fact that people wrote shit then, and will continue to write
by aniforprez 4y ago
As someone who once was part of an outsourced team maintaining a COBOL system, I can attest to the fact that people wrote shit then, and will continue to write shit. I was trying to debug and figure what the hell was going on in some especially complex logic and found the author's comment at the top of the file with the date "1983". I put my resignation papers 2 weeks later and moved on to JS, Python and systems design