Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoGerman railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemswww.techspot.comexternal-linkmessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkGerman railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemswww.techspot.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square202fedilink
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoRewriting a legacy system that’s been patched and amended for 30 years… Good luck with that. It seems simple on paper but it’s anything but.
minus-squareContend6248@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoJust make it from scratch? For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that’s why nobody gets their head around it anymore.
minus-squareLlewellyn@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months ago Just make it from scratch? And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code? It’s a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.
Time for a rewrite
Rewriting a legacy system that’s been patched and amended for 30 years… Good luck with that. It seems simple on paper but it’s anything but.
Just make it from scratch?
For sure there is so much useless shit in there, that’s why nobody gets their head around it anymore.
And miss some tricky edge cases, which were covered in old code?
It’s a railroad. Those edge cases could be disastrous.