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by assttoasstmgr
1521 days ago
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I'd normally write this off as immature blogspam but when I see stuff like this in the thread: > that a lot of their code is some C code written in 1998 I figure I could remind Ms. Zeng that the real world runs on legacy code. Everything from spaceships to airplanes to the airbag controller in your car that might save your life one day is probably running "some C/Ada/Fortran code written in XX". The hot garbage that is EDA software designing your phone and laptop is probably from the 90s. The code that tabulates your bank account at the end of the day is very likely ancient. There is good reason for all of this. In fact I'd be legit horrified if the code tabulating my taxes was done using some flavor-of-the-week JavaScript library. TurboTax has been around since the 80s-90s so I'd expect the mathematics libraries to be stable and vetted by accountants and unlikely to change. |
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