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The age of the company is not neccessarily indicative for the age of the codebase.
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I mean, I'm currently doing greenfield dev in a company well over 100 years old. There certainly is legacy crap here, and occasionally we need to analyse bits of it, but we're not maintaining it. Most of the codebase we work with is only a couple of years old, max.
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nibor48133yMy last employer was founded in 1765, there definitely wasn't any legacy code from then!
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The Age of the company many times relates to the mentality of the company...
Remember that 100 years ago it was normal to have kids slide below the machines while working... And many painted said machines Red! -
@nitnip I love all kinds of Histories and that's a sad part of the early 20 century industry.
Because adults couldn't fit below machines, children were hired for said job. To clean and fix.
Sometimes one would get couth because machines would be working...
Other times...
Did you know that children weren't given names till they were 12?due to the high mortality?
And most were dressed as girls. Thers a picture of George Washington where he looks like a girl. Dress and long curly hair :p -
nitnip18103y@GyroGearloose Oh, I completely misread your comment. I was thinking of engineers bringing their kids to work. Bored kids just playing under the desk and drawing pictures in red for some reason
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