Old code surviving into the long future

Posted Jul 23, 2024 9:02 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Old code surviving into the long future by farnz
Parent article: The 6.10 kernel has been released

> There must have been better requirements when it was written

Are you sure :-)

The requirements I work to mostly seem to be "bodge it til it looks right". (Given that, for a lot of my work, there is no right answer, you'd think that was as good as any. And then I look at what my colleagues are doing and scream "for God's sake that just CAN'T give you a sensible answer!")

Cheers,
Wol