[drabiega]

> memory/resource scarcity is the mother of quality code

My experience with Legacy code has been the exact opposite of this. I've seen some really well written and documented legacy code but almost never in resource / performance sensitive areas.

People inevitably seem to accept trade-offs that sacrifice readability and maintainability for efficiency.

[C1sc0cat]

Well I recall writing Fortan 77 for a billing system and we had nicely structured code (our team leader was a genius) but we did do some specific stuff eg reading in data in chunks the size of a disk sector.

[maxxxxx]

And it was perfectly normal to do stuff like this.

[Pamar]

Canonical example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel