cm0002@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 15 hours agoWhat is the result of a programmer's work?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1682arrow-down16cross-posted to: programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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minus-squaremelsaskca@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up36·5 hours agoAn architect’s building can last several hundred years. A programmers genius logic becomes obsolete in three years.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·53 minutes agoThat’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?
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·5 hours agoAnd the fools rushed code is still there a decade later…
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 hours agoExcept when it doesn’t. Then it becomes https://xkcd.com/2347/
An architect’s building can last several hundred years. A programmers genius logic becomes obsolete in three years.
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?
And the fools rushed code is still there a decade later…
You nailed it.
Except when it doesn’t. Then it becomes https://xkcd.com/2347/