[codemac]

Interestingly, in my first job all of the code I worked on my first 3 years was all "in-house" code (because from the bootloader to my code was all proprietary). I think places like Microsoft also have groups that have the same phenomenon. However - the people who initially wrote or worked on that code were long gone.

I've gone on to work other places where I had to do more of this archeology.. and I have to say it actually felt similar.

In summary - I think there is actually a new, more combinatorially complex amount of archeology occurring now. Where the microsoft, apple, netapp, linux, emc, vxworks, etc OS people have been dealing with some of this for a while with one OS... people who rely on services, on many processes, on an internet of things or whatever..

It feels like we'll never have a POSIX of the internet. HTTP is as close as we've gotten, and it's too small to be read/write/exec. We'll never have anything you can "trust" and more and more developers need the patience to wade through everyone else's code as well.