[jprd]

You'd probably be horrified to know what kind of systems still run most of the world's manufacturing, very much including modern chip fabs.

[doobiedowner]

Ladder logic, written by peasants. (signed: control peasant that prefers ST)

[snerbles]

Lucky you, my stakeholders would run screaming for the hills whenever they caught a whiff of written code on PLCs. All ladder, all the time.

[doobiedowner]

A fart has been lofted in your direction

[WWLink]

Would I? The amiga setup sounds totally fine to me. Aside from old HVAC equipment potentially wasting a lot of energy, I see nothing wrong with using a 40 year old computer to control everything.