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God forbid. HN is such an echo chamber - I’d bet 99% of the code written by these gods will be dead and unmaintainable in 3 years. In the meantime, the stuff t
by hindsightbias 4y ago
God forbid. HN is such an echo chamber - I’d bet 99% of the code written by these gods will be dead and unmaintainable in 3 years.
In the meantime, the stuff that keeps the world spinning was written by some normie 30 years ago in RPG.
- selimthegrim 4y agoRPG?
- ghaff 4y agoReport Program Generator. Old IBM Series i / AS/400 language.
- throwaway2037 4y agoI can vouch for commercial banking settlement systems. Far and away, they are running on IBM AS/400 mainframes. Most of the code is C or something before it. I have seen the source for more than a few in my career. The code is rock solid, if poorly tested, but it has been running so long that it is essentially bug free. If any changes need to be made, first, unit tests are written to find all the edge cases in old code. Then, refactor + add new business logic. It's not perfect, but it works much better than anyone from the outside could imagine. And, I agree with your "normie" comment. The code is _so_ bland. Zero tricks, ever. The goal is to write code that will last 15-30 years. No joke.
- ornornor 4y ago> The code is _so_ bland. Zero tricks, ever. The goal is to write code that will last 15-30 years. No joke. This is the way all code should be written IMO. Hard to argue this and keep a straight face when JS is one of the most popular la gauge these days though :(