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Erin

@thomasfuchs truth.

A neighbor of mine wrote & maintained a payroll system written in for 110,000+ employees until she retired after 50 years there.

Her last programming task was writing, migrating and documenting the replacement system she wrote when she was hired in C++

@MoonshotErin @thomasfuchs That may not be as much of a stretch as you'd think. Modern Fortran has enough of an object model that you can refactor your way to something (relatively) easy to translate to C++. Modernizing F77 isn't too hellish; the worst you have to deal with is usually aliased variables and other workarounds to not having dynamic memory allocation. F66 can be rough because flow of control is usually done with GOTOs; there aren't many good options. Working with it makes you really appreciate block constructs.

@arclight @thomasfuchs that was the impression she gave me, she basically didn't have much to do except maintain the system and at some point rewrote it in c++ to keep busy only to keep it in her back pocket for when she retired.