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Originally Posted by Alan A
Since it's Friday and I'm not looking to install anything new today...
Try looking at 50 year old undocumented assembler, where the 40 characters per line of comments are the only source if information on whatever twisted logic the original developer thought they were doing.
Or if you really want an exercise in WTAF frustration - decompile some from the load module because someone deleted the source and try to follow the logic. And no, Opus isn't as much help here as you might hope it would be.
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We still have a large dependency on 25 year old code and db schemes written by former VSAM developers. Data duplicated everywhere since they couldn't grok a join, the languages (VG/EGL) were originally by IBM as a way to move towards Java, you write in EGL/VG and it generates Java+JSP or COBOL code. We can't get the installer any more, we're running it on Win10 vms made from ripping a physical Win7 install out and upgrading the OS on it. We can't even buy licenses, we tried and IBM said "we have no way of charging you for it, just ignore the license warning, here's a nice letter from our legal folk giving permission"