this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025

902 points (99.1% liked)

Programmer Humor

26846 readers

1601 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Feyter@programming.dev

anzo@programming.dev

BurningTurtle@programming.dev

pylapp@programming.dev

902

What is the result of a programmer's work? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

106 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I work at a multi-bilion dollar company that would crash to a halt if our Cobol + assembly language Unisys system written in the 80s went offline. It's hard to predict what will become difficult to replace, but some code has extraordinary staying power.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I wrote a web app circa 2001 (Visual Basic 6 and Classic ASP) that is still in use. Unremarkable except that this app was a graphical UI front end atop a clunky mainframe app from the 1970s. The fact that my app is still running means this mainframe app is still running.