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What is the result of a programmer's work? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 months ago

An architect's building can last several hundred years. A programmers genius logic becomes obsolete in three years.

[-] Cevilia 19 points 2 months ago

Except when it doesn't. Then it becomes https://xkcd.com/2347/

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 2 months ago

Oh, I've got awful code from 20+ years ago still in mine.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago

Don't worry there'll be a company in 2095 that still using it. They're always is someone.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I have some perl code still good after ~20 years. Personal accounting and bill prediction, command line with todo comments about a never made web interface

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And the fools rushed code is still there a decade later...

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

You nailed it.

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