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jfengel ◴[] No.44382104[source]
In college I worked for a company whose goal was to prove that their management techniques could get a bunch of freshman to write quality code.

They couldn't. I would go find the code that caused a bug, fix it and discover that the bug was still there. Because previous students had, rather than add a parameter to a function, would make a copy and slightly modify it.

I deleted about 3/4 of their code base (thousands of lines of Turbo Pascal) that fall.

Bonus: the customer was the Department of Energy, and the program managed nuclear material inventory. Sleep tight.

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supportengineer ◴[] No.44382634[source]
Was this in Blacksburg by any chance?
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1. jfengel ◴[] No.44383932[source]
It was indeed! Back in the late 80s. You know of it?

It was so long ago it feels half mythical to me.