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Could be personal preference, but that actually sounds more fun than a lot of things in tech. Software archaeology on ancient and possibly broken systems? Proba
by _delirium 12y ago
Could be personal preference, but that actually sounds more fun than a lot of things in tech. Software archaeology on ancient and possibly broken systems? Probably has lots of annoying parts, but also sounds pretty interesting. Is it really less annoying to do "modern" work, like learning the Nth new Javascript framework, dealing with piles of Chef scripts, extending Enterprise C++ codebases, spending weeks testing browser compatibility, etc.?
- blincoln 12y agoMy experience is that it's a lot less fun in practice than it is in theory. Uncommented spaghetti COBOL code is about as hard to reverse-engineer as an x86 disassembler dump done without debug symbols, IMO.