L' Eomot Inversé (9/26/2013)

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Gary Varga (9/25/2013)

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simon.crick (9/25/2013)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/25/2013)

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simon.crick (9/25/2013)

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I was lucky. I had teachers who drummed this into me from an early age, and I have written some fairly complex systems that have not needed a single bug fix or enhancement in 20+ years.

I can't argue with that. I hope you're well compensated as you must be one of the best developers around. I've never me anyone that could make this claim.

I sense a degree of disbelief, and I can't blame you given the culture of not caring about the odd bug here and there that seems to invaded the computing industry, but it is 100% true. The first system I worked on was a client database and commission tracking system for a financial advisor. I finished it in the early 1990's, and it is still in use today, and it hasn't been touched for over 20 years.

Simon

I struggle with "fairly complex systems" and "not needed a single [...] enhancement". No changing requirements? Are you sure? Where in this world is a place where that neither financial regulation nor personal data regulation has changed in 20+ years???

Surely nowhere N America, Scandinavia, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, or South Aftrica. Unless Mr Crick did that work in a very primitive country he is evidently equipped with a Crystal Ball which allowed him in the early 90s to antcipate and program to comply with all the regulatory changes that were going to occur in the next 20 years.