🎶 Bad code, bad code;
🎶 ah-Whatchu gonna do?;
🎶 Whatchu gonna do when they code like poo?

#developers #remix #LegacyCode #DadJokes #Friday

Having to replace some quite simple looking legacy C++ code with newer code that looks even worse (at least more complicated).

Ranges (as in a float min/max values) are not returned as a pair/tuple. So every line is a round trip into the lookup logic.

And there is no case where only one of those values are needed.

I guess I need to intervene here with a better API. #cpp #boyscoutrule #legacycode

This is going to be a game-changer when it gets to civilian hands.
#FormalVerification #LegacyCode
#ReverseEngineering
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/darpa_legacy_binary_patching/

#Codereview

#LegacyCode: "Hm? Ah..!? Ok?Ja?!?!"

#Java Code: "Ah...Oh....
Da könnte man auch
...
<hier zwei Stunden Diskussion über Klassengedöns, Vererbung, Interfaces,... einfügen>
...
So ist aber auch gut."

😅

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Ich habe heute ein totes Pferd geritten und da ich die Flinte nicht ins Korn warf, weil gut Ding ja Weile haben will, wurde ich zum blinden Huhn, das auch mal ein Korn findet, denn steter Tropfen höhlt den Stein und so habe ich die Nadel im Heuhaufen gefunden.

Also ganz normaler Tag in der #Softwarewartung von #LegacyCode.

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Daniel Cilliers discussing the one thing that drives us all to distraction - legacy code! “You'll never get rid of Legacy code: Why & what we can do about it”

#devconf #legacycode #software

@sultmhoor Coincidentally I came across this post: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/110373196932125680

Note the first two words in the definitions of both “we need to rewrite it” and “#LegacyCode”: “It works.” If it’s profitable, you can pay down #TechnicalDebt with minimum “interest.”

But @ncommander admits #SoylentNews never had a sustainable business or community governance model.

Does #Perl lack millions of cheap commodity #programmers? Yes. But the ones it has are force multipliers.

But sure, blame the language.

Ah yes, unit tests... the only problem being that the whole program – tightly-coupled GUI included – is the unit.

#softwareDevelopment #legacyCode #TDD

Opened the 'boxes' source in #visualstudiocode, and it casually lets me know I added that line "24 years ago". At least it's properly documented. 😂 #legacycode #c

Dieser Moment wo du #code siehst, denkst #wtf, wer hat das verbrochen, du auf die Suche gehst und realisiert, dass du das vor über 5 Jahren verbrochen hast.

Da hilft nur positives denken, dass man den Fehler jetzt erkannt hat. #legacycode

Refactor... You keep using that word...

https://t.co/Y6fkopgB2L

#agile #legacycode

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Is there a project/package like RubyCritic/Attractor for JavaScript/TypeScript projects? I'm especially interested in the churn vs. complexity graph for my JS legacy projects. 🚀

#JavaScript #TypeScript #CodeQuality #Rubygems #LegacyCode

🏗️ The Future Of Thunderbird: Why We're Rebuilding From The Ground Up

— @thunderbird
#Opensource #LegacyCode

⏳ Legacy Code Conversion
—Computerphile
#Cobol #LegacyCode
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xz06zYlQrck&feature=share

When you are trying to get #codeanalysis working for a real old #project. Said project uses a tool to incorrectly generate vxproj files and hundreds of them, all use same #guid that subtly breaks things. You find that there is a tool that does that. Written in #visualbasicnet that no one have touched in 10 years. You also find out that this tool is used in many projects. And each repo has its own copy of it. So you manually need to update about 50 repos... *cries in #LegacyCode*

"No amount of agile transformation that's only rooted in process, in frameworks, will solve the technical excellence issue."

https://omny.fm/shows/agile-for-humans/afh-what-happened-at-southwest-airlines #agile #technicalexcellence #legacycode