Then I became a senior engineer pretty early - as my first job was working on nuclear power software. We had code in Fortran that NOBODY was allowed to edit. Bu

Then I became a senior engineer pretty early - as my first job was working on nuclear power software. We had code in Fortran that NOBODY was allowed to edit. But lots of other legacy Fortran was up for grabs. Oh, and my favorite software tale is when we turned on the new software in the control room and the first thing the plant manager said when he looked at the new digital instrumentation was "that can't be right".