The story is from the 1990s. The character is actually my dad. It was a mid-sized actuarial firm. He started by writing a whole new program to do the function he needed the spaghetti-code laden crap to do. Then he added features here and there until he had just made a whole new program which was documented, easier to read, and functioning well. After awhile, he passed it to the other actuaries, and his work became the new software. But he never did use the old software.
I guess things are different now. As the person above also said, it’s impossible to ignore the super-system that a small system is embedded in. Additionally, I think some of his reasoning for outright refusal to use the old software was that he wasn’t comfortable that he wouldn’t be able to audit it, and he was signing off on yearly reports for the firm.
The story is from the 1990s. The character is actually my dad. It was a mid-sized actuarial firm. He started by writing a whole new program to do the function he needed the spaghetti-code laden crap to do. Then he added features here and there until he had just made a whole new program which was documented, easier to read, and functioning well. After awhile, he passed it to the other actuaries, and his work became the new software. But he never did use the old software.
I guess things are different now. As the person above also said, it’s impossible to ignore the super-system that a small system is embedded in. Additionally, I think some of his reasoning for outright refusal to use the old software was that he wasn’t comfortable that he wouldn’t be able to audit it, and he was signing off on yearly reports for the firm.