Re: Legacy code

["Chris Rehm" <Mr.AS400@xxxxxxx>]

>INDEED!  Who among us has not maintained our own code written a year or
more
>earlier and said "WHAT was I THINKING????"!!!

I wrote a set of applications that ran the company I was working for and
they packaged and started selling. About when I got finished, the AS/400
was announced and I ported the apps and learned a whole new world of RPG. 

I left that company and worked on a variety of different 400s and as luck
would have it, five years later I returned because they wanted to rewrite
the system. 

For once, I had no guilt about cussing out the programmer that had written
that crap.

The crying shame was that the new manager had learned RPG from reading the
code I had written (the manager who took over the shop when I left hadn't
cut it). For years, code had been written by him and other staffers using
my original work as an example. 

One day I was looking through some of my code and had a flash that they
hadn't brought me back for the rewrite at all, but simply to get revenge
for what I had put them through.

>Dean Asmussen




Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net
You have to ask yourself, "How often can I afford to be unexpectedly out of 
business?" 
Get an AS/400.
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