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iHaveNoRecollectionOfThisPlace
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I've worked on files that were last modified before I was born.
I work on files that are written in languages not updated since the early 80’s.
COBOL?
Logo? Pilot? Pascal? PL/1? APL? B / BCPL?
Worst part of APL is needing a special keyboard
(I've never written APL in my life)
I worked on files written in a language that was spoken before the First Age.
Morgoth himself wrote those evil spells.
And the first few lines are a change log with three letter initials of the long retired people that last worked on it. Like an old arcade scoreboard.
Crazy how common this was.
Mine had full names. Of which I only recognized the last one because she had been there for like 30 years. I was 25.
Haha I was about to say, I've edited HTML files from the 90s that were still in all caps
When working on a file older than when the project was moved over from SVN to Git so you literally have no idea how old it is.
you can convert the project the history and authors to git including the original date.
I've found on larger projects that this conversion is more theoretical than practical. The tooling to convert SVN history just isn't that great.
i’m working on an 8 year old file now. it’s spooky in here
Try 20 years…
At what point does it become archeology...
6?
I'm currently analyzing a module to be replaced that hasn't been touched or maintained since 2003 - i should take the library out for a drink...
Try being the guy who actually authored the file and trying to remember what the hell you were doing
The old stuff is always either abysmal dogshit or just a display of genius, the subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it etc; no in-between
Wait till it's a 15 year old file, and you're the expert on it, because you wrote it. Except you haven't looked at it in that long too.
I occasionally look back on my capstone research project from a decade+ ago and I'm like
WHO WROTE THIS GARB...oh. It was me. Significant oof.
Please don't touch anything. Create a wrapper around and use it.
this is the way!
Six years ago? That’s like nothing
That's 2019
Yeah so like yesterday
6 years? I work on a legacy older than me 💀
You forgot the dust. On the file, and on your neurons.
with some weird charset that's not utf8
What's that? Code page 1252? Oh, yer fucked, run while you can.
Ha, that's rookie numbers. I was working on one a few weeks ago whose last change was in 2001.
Why yes, I do work in government, how did you know? :P
I once fixed a file that was last modified 1.5 years before I was born. I had to fix a report header with a hardcoded “19” for the year. COBOL just keeps on going.
The joke around here is "you touched it last"
And there are some files people will go to great lengths not to touch so it doesn't become your file to maintain.
There's currently a game of chicken being played over one of our local CDN JS files where no dev wants to make the patch and claim ownership so we just inject it in our own code.
As an aspiring programmer that's currently learning a lot of new stuff every week, this is me looking at 3 months old code I wrote lol
That means you improving, keep on!
1983 my friend, as an intern, makes you real humble.
Wow, that's like code paleontology.
45 files changed/deleted(+900/-1100)
yeah it's not pretty when it's your turn
Contribution my friend🙂
I am currently working on project, that most of the files was edited more than 11 years ago (except login script which is only 8 years old)
i maintain a piece of software at work that came out in the mid nineties and i recently pushed changes to a file that was last edited in 2003. so old it wasn’t even linted. code format was all over the place😅
More like a month ago
Me every day at work
Our automatic code review forced me to change some classes that were not only from 2018 but also auto generated from an excel. So that was pointless effort.
my current project has files with last modified dates in 1994
6 years ago?
Try BASIC code from when I was in high school in the '90s.
I'm probably still actively using 6yo code.
E.G. (not actual code but something like this):
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
' ------------------------------------------------------------
' Author: Someone in 2001
' Purpose: Handles form submission and displays result
' Last Modified: January 24, 2006
' ------------------------------------------------------------
<fucking 3000 thousand lines of code>
In industrial controls the last change could have been sixty years ago or longer. It’s kinda cool figuring out what they were thinking when designing things.
someone found bug, revisit the code and i feels like im in backroom already even last edit was 1 month ago
Pfff, I daily run the OS which received the last official update in 2008.
Same feeling after 3 weeks vacation
I‘ve worked on a file that I changed myself 4years ago…. Even the task explanation and all comments didn’t help: I didn’t remember it, had to start understanding from scratch.
Our entire project of repos
1998 Java 1.2
Damned to 2 different projects that haven't been touched since 2008 and 2013 right now
When your pull request to an open source project has been merged after 8 years.
https://i.imgur.com/KcNFemi.jpeg
Happens often
No doubt
Yeah not 8 years but just a few days ago I got a review on my 2 year old PR! They still requested changes though so it may take another few years for the next review