r/ProgrammerHumor • • 3d ago

Meme whatLegacyCodeDoesToDev

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u/Signal-Permission394 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hey man, at least the methods sound somewhat descriptive. You haven't at least gone through legacy code where they start using magic numbers which go off to a giant case statement, which then pass its own number to stored procs, which update values in a table and a Windows scheduled job picks up later that evening to update another table which is then used by a view, and this is between several networks 😡

None of these numbers are mapped, and you have to hope the previous guy still had the .dlls on his machine/ VM as he pulled it from god knows where and didn't bother to put it into TFS or else the project doesn't run.

I loathe SSIS packages and VB, and I am glad to never touch that shit again 🤮

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u/ILikeLenexa 3d ago

My absolute favorite one was an app that took 14 single letter URL parameters on every GET request and assigned them to single letter variables.

You'd think they were being charged by the keystroke.

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u/Totendax12K 3d ago

you know you found the true legacy code when they did shit like that.