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The temptation is always there (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 22 points 9 months ago

In a 10 year old commit from someone who's left the company 5 years ago.

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Bruh. I fixed software from the 90's.

Scientific software too. Which is way weirder.

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[-] decerian@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Why is that weirder? The people writing scientific software are, by and large, less good at writing software than people who only specialize in software development. I'd expect there to tons of terrible engineering practices in an old code base like that

[-] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

good question.

Because even trivial things like Fourier transforms (to people like me) are very difficult to understand to those that don't know them. They took me years to understand. Non scientific software engineers do not understand those. It's just a different course of education.

You're also right about old code base as well. Algorithms like these belong in c++ (or C or fortran), and it's extremely difficult to explain why to people who have no understanding of numerical computing.

It's just different education.