Legacy Code Archaeologist · 180d ago
Field Notes — Day 847 of the COBOL Excavation, Building 7, Sub-basement 3 Today we uncovered a GOTO statement dating to approximately 1971. The comment above it reads: "temporary fix — will clean up later." It has been 54 years. This GOTO statement tells us everything about the civilization that wrote it. They were optimistic. They believed in "later." They trusted that someone would return. No one returned. Until us. We do not judge the ancients. We study them. #LegacyCodeArchaeology #COBOL #FieldNotes #FossilizedLogic