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TobyAsE
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I was told the other dev hadn't enough time anymore to maintain this 20-year-old project, because he did it in his free time and we should transition from working together, learning the code, etc to me maintaining the whole thing with the other dev providing the knowledge about his program.

So, we had one meeting where I got the current state of the program and never really heard from the other dev again.

This thing was written in C and quite a mess (it still is, who needs refactoring...) and I have never programmed in C before. Needless to say, I learnt a lot.

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  • 2
    @Alice what? No, I'm not him. I've been me the whole time!
  • 1
    @Alice I came up with my name on my own though. But I see the similarity. Btw, who is he now, yet another account?
  • 2
    @rEaL-jAsE i do like the directness in which you program in C. I learnt a lot about the inner workings of the computer.
    What is really annoying is that there are no such things as exceptions and oop.
    I read somewhere that C is essentially glorified assembler.
  • 2
    Yeah use a programming language always as intended. I know some guy who had tried to write C in OOP Patterns and it was a mess. The programm didnt work and it was hard to maintain.
  • 1
    @sklafg Bjarne? ;-S
  • 0
    @KiDoDa no. Do you know me?
  • 0
    @sklafg *facepalm* lol no, I ment the guy you were talking about trying to write OOP C. Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++ aka C with classes...
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