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What is the result of a programmer's work? (lemmy.ml)
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[-] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

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