Code that's old enough to drink

re: Code that's old enough to drink

damien morton — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:46:00 GMT

A long time ago, when I was fresh out of university, I worked for a computer games company. I wrote some data compression/decompression code for them which was pretty cool - the decompresion used only as much memory as the buffer into which the data was decompressed (which was important when you had only 8K of RAM and 128K of ROM), and was competetive with pkzip as well as being very fast.

10 years after I wrote that code, and quite some time after I left that company, I bumped into someone who was working at the same company. We talked and it turned out he had worked on my compression code. He accused me of being a bad programmer, because he had improved its performance by a factor of 2. I was happy though, because my code was still being used and improved on 10 years later.

I wouldnt be surprised if the code was still in use, somewhere.

re: Code that's old enough to drink

Larry Osterman — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:47:00 GMT

The good news is that there's not much code at Microsoft that fits that category currently (although there IS some in the MS-DOS emulation logic in Windows).

Old enough to drive? Yup, there's that in spades (I work on some of it). But not old enough to drink.

re: Code that's old enough to drink

Nick — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:07:00 GMT

What's worse is when you deal with code that's old enough to drink... and you have to make it work with new code.

My current client has a very large mainframe system that we are writing software to interact with... using .NET. You know... I wasn't bald when I started this assignment.

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