• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    20 days ago

    Had a friend who father was a FORTRAN programmer and teach him since he was a child. At 17, he was already working on a oil company making bank. He was obsessed with synthesizers and everytime you went to his house he showed you the new ones he bought. At 25 he “retired” with his own house and a fully equipped recording studio and nowadays it’s a music producer doing some consulting to pay the bills.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    I was on a project where a co-worker left and his son was onboarded a few years later; he seemed much more chill than I when we were both working on an issue and it dawned on me that he was literally fixing (well, not really a defect just an update) his Dad’s code. Heh.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Tangential, but I’m working with some code that started out in the punch card era (I’m doing particle physics, it’s in fortran)

    • PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de
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      20 days ago

      haha me too. although it was ported to fortran 4, 77 and 2003 respectively. still the logic remained in its core.

      But i must admit. working on such organic grown is harder then doing yourself. comments was devils work at that time. variables shortened to 3 chars for memory sake. really a pain in the ass.