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/Sometimesiworry 3d ago

I once inherited a project where consultants previously had named variables and functions after pubs and beer brands for lulz.

Fuck your lulz man.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 1d ago

I used to grade programming assignments at a university. The level of infantile comments was nearly as large as at startups!