I love the idea of software museums. We need more of these. In the future we will have to have something like software archeology to keep our aging legacy systems running in perpetuity. Imagine a large, critical legacy system built on ancient software continues for 100+ years, and the cost to replace it with modern technology is devastatingly expensive and close to impossible?
Oh wait, we already have systems like that in the US Federal government! Okay they’re not more than a century old, but ai can imagine scenarios where they will be. The programmers for these systems are in now their sixties and early seventies, with very very few younger engineers learning the old stuff, especially recent graduates.
Oh wait, we already have systems like that in the US Federal government! Okay they’re not more than a century old, but ai can imagine scenarios where they will be. The programmers for these systems are in now their sixties and early seventies, with very very few younger engineers learning the old stuff, especially recent graduates.
We need a specialized CS program just for this.