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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by jacquesm on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:04PM (#38513276)
That makes perfect sense. Extra points if you designed the system to be replaced in time.
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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by noduerme on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:23AM (#38514233)
Hahah. The last one was a close call, since the entire front end of the system from 2009-2020 was a responsive single page app written in Actionscript 3, to replace the old PHP page system... but we saw the deadline looming about a year in advance and accelerated it.
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