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What is the result of a programmer's work?
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An architect's building can last several hundred years. A programmers genius logic becomes obsolete in three years.
And the fools rushed code is still there a decade later...
You nailed it.
Oh, I've got awful code from 20+ years ago still in mine.
Don't worry there'll be a company in 2095 that still using it. They're always is someone.
Except when it doesn't. Then it becomes https://xkcd.com/2347/
That's okay. The company is set to go IPO in two.
Tell that to leftpad.
That's what's always amused me about the "code re-use" imperative. I started my career with Visual Basic 3 -- what good could anything I wrote back then possibly do me today?
I work at a multi-bilion dollar company that would crash to a halt if our Cobol + assembly language Unisys system written in the 80s went offline. It's hard to predict what will become difficult to replace, but some code has extraordinary staying power.
I wrote a web app circa 2001 (Visual Basic 6 and Classic ASP) that is still in use. Unremarkable except that this app was a graphical UI front end atop a clunky mainframe app from the 1970s. The fact that my app is still running means this mainframe app is still running.