• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Fortran. At least it was comprehensible to a human brain once upon a time. And probably efficiently written.

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      16 days ago

      Yeah really. It would be some tough sledding at first, but it would be far better than looking at some code with some nicely named methods and variables with lots of comments (with emoticons!) for days… only to find out it does absolutely nothing.

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      16 days ago

      If you’re good at assembly you’ll be fine once you get past the bad formatting, short names, etc. that was common at that time.

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        16 days ago

        I deal with a code base written in the 90s in a language similar to basic. All the 3 letter variable names drive me crazy