Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev...
by ternaryoperator on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:53AM
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Nonsense. The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated. Oracle DB and PostgreSQL are entirely different classes of products. No airline runs its reservation system on PostreSQL. That's not a coincidence.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev...
by meshugga on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:26AM
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It's not a coincidence, no, because Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.
This is also a factor for independent developers (who build airline reservation systems) who need to choose a RDBMS for their product - they'll choose oracle, because ... Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not.
Which makes Oracle not a different class of product than Postgres, but a different class of support for the product. (which could be considered part of the product, so ... maybe you're right)
Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev...
by TheHaakon on Friday November 23, 2018 @05:03AM
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No, they use Amadeus.
Amadeus is a wonderful mainframe program that perfectly and with 100% accuracy faithfully models how you'd book a train ticket in France in the fifties.
What more could we want?
Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev...
by p0nce on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:16AM
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> The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-biggest-codebases-in-his...
Size of software reflects the number of people working on it (and for how long), not essential complexity.