we knew around that time what patterns were good ones The source control system I had at one job around that time was a dvcs! At a different one, the source co

we knew around that time what patterns were good ones The source control system I had at one job around that time was a dvcs! At a different one, the source control system had its own filesystem was generally insane. It had its own fulltime maintainer sort of like tptacek's build person. The big difference, really, was that all this software cost a lot of money compared to now where it mostly does not.