• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    4 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.