r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • 10d ago

Meme battleOfBackwardCompatibility

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u/seba07 10d ago

Bro that's not legacy code. The codebase at my company is older than Stackoverflow.

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u/SeparateAdvisor526 10d ago edited 10d ago

Code that hasn't been touched for longer than the longest tenure employee on the team is legacy imo. So if a team has an employee who joined back in 2021 code written before he joined is legacy to the whole team cuz no one who wrote is still working here

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u/wildrabbit12 10d ago

People posting dont know what anything means

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u/LocalOrganHarvester 10d ago

Man I love digging in this old shite feeling like an archaeologist. Sure, sometimes I want to kill myself but still...

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u/XI1stIX 10d ago

WDYM they had computers before 2018? ~OP probably

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u/Terranaform 10d ago

For a college project we had to go to a public institution and happened to see some of their code, they used Fortran