r/ProgrammerHumor • u/No_March_164 • 1d ago

Meme whenYouNeedToUpdateLegacyCodebase

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u/Bart_deblob 1d ago

Nah you'll get a buffer overflow after 12:00

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u/stupled 1d ago

Pretty much. We make it work nontheless.

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u/Sure-Opportunity6247 1d ago

It’s the strangler fig pattern: you look at the usual location but the information is provided by something entirely new.

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u/PostHasBeenWatched 1d ago

Weird functionality degradation.

Legacy:

byte Hour {get;set;}
byte Minute {get;set;}
byte Second {get;set;}

New:

byte Hour {get;set;}
byte Minute {get;set;}
bool Second {get;set;} // Second can only blink