• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    This is what’s happening in highly complex software over time. Every larger system has corners like this.

    I’ve worked on a system that required that you send invalid XML, because some bloke 10 years ago didn’t know what he’s doing and hardcoded a certain structure.

    Easy fix, but our clients relied in the old behavior, and nobody bothered fixing it.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      and nobody bothered fixing it.

      As they said: “Classic Bethesda behavior”