@kdfrawg The combination of this, their insistence on using some horrid Infragistics controls and a bit of money laundering put the place to rest. It's how I wound up where I am now. "I'll pay double what you are making there and you can run things as you see fit" was music to my ears :)
@kdfrawg We spent more time slapping things like Visual Assist on it to overcome shortcomings than actually getting code written. This was okay as we were forced by management to use Visual SourceSafe - The black hole of source code repositories.
@kdfrawg It's what drove me to do Linux based development. You know your IDE is bad when you prefer EMACS (It was a phase) and a Bourne shell.
@matigo I imagine there are chunks of BIOS code that are old enough to collect social security.
@matigo The oldest unaltered bit of C code we still use in a small utility was written in 1978. We still have the COBOL source of one of the ancient accounting packages the company developed but, alas, it is no longer in use anywhere.
@matigo It pretty much paralleled Linux's advancements during the period. It's time is at an end though. Our form language parser and such will carry over and live on but the rest has earned it's retirement.
Kind of sad that I am finally mothballing a code-base that I have worked on for 16 years.
Today is officially the day I will kill off the Linux VM on my right-hand display and dedicate it to Visual Studio and/or Android Studio. The VM will instead run on my MacBook.
Even though I am now comfortably using a full Microsoft development and productivity stack, part of me feels like I have committed an act of betrayal. I'm happy but I would have loved for the other thing to work out.