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Oh god stories like this scare me. One of my friends used to intern for a very large company that maintained software for flight control towers. His entire sum
by temuze 11y ago
Oh god stories like this scare me.
One of my friends used to intern for a very large company that maintained software for flight control towers. His entire summer was spent writing bash tests for these old Fortran apps that kept planes from running into each other. Most of the mainframes still had tape.
That's the code that keeps track of our planes.
- Xylakant 11y agoI must admit I don't take that as a negative thing. Code that's so old had a lot of time for corner cases to be ironed out. If it's maintained properly it's probably less buggy than any rewrite, even though fortran is less enticing than rust as a language.