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> last I stuck my head into that particular hell I don't think it's hell if you like retrocomputing. Personally I find it fascinating. In the past I sometimes
by mastazi 2y ago
> last I stuck my head into that particular hell
I don't think it's hell if you like retrocomputing. Personally I find it fascinating. In the past I sometimes had to work on legacy systems and I liked playing the archeologist role.
Maybe you are not referring to the platform, but rather to code quality. But I have found some a lot of jumbled messy React code in early stage startups, and some decent code in legacy systems I have worked on, so I guess code quality is not always directly related to age of the system...
- madaxe_again 2y agoI like retro computing - and this ain’t it. This is consultants gouging their clients, and a cultish “we don’t touch that” inherited through generations of management. To be clear, parts of it are in COBOL. Other bits are in RPG, others yet in PL/1, and then a generous application of java, c++, windows shell scripts, unix shell scripts, and it’s all held together with TSVs. It’s more like hoarding than anything else - “don’t touch that, it might be useful, I don’t know, just leave it as it is, we’ll get eleven new servers for whatever it is that it does” In the end we gave them a pile of python that ingested malformatted EDIs that another system made and spat out TSVs so that same system could then not trip over its own shoelaces.
- mastazi 2y agoAh, makes sense, yeah that's not what I had pictured, and it seems like it's not fun at all!