Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by TigeriusKirk on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:00PM (#30234326)

Reading this made me realize I've written code that's no only older than a lot of people reading this, it's still being sold to new customers.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by jart on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:36PM (#30236116)

That's really impressive. What's the code? Something like that sounds like it could be a really inspirational success story.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by TigeriusKirk on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#30236373)

It's not that inspirational in reality. I worked for a company that produced software for banks converting their systems over to Windows in the 90s. The resulting packages are still being sold to new financial institutions by the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought the company I worked for at the time. Heh. One of my old coworkers there still makes some decent money as a consultant supporting it.

I also worked on some ATM software at the same company, but it was pre-windows and I doubt it's running many places, much less being sold still.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? by jart on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:26PM (#30237660)

I think that's inspirational. What was it, written in something like COBOL? I've had my codebases demolished by things like Express changing its API enough times that you might say I've got a little COBOL envy. Major respect to anything that's stood the test of time and continues to serve a useful purpose after all these years.

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