> If I wrote software like this I would be instantly fired. Can somebody please explain?
If aerospace engineers built airplanes the way you (or me) code, they'd be in prison.
I don't think software developers have any right to criticise - we are the clowns of engineering world.
The software around me fails all the time, coffe machine refuses to make coffee becauae there is no wifi, toyota has spaghetti code controlling the accelerator, average home router has over 9000 securiry holes.
Even if you look at our industry standards, the HTTP standard has flaws allowing Request Smuggling, JSON standard is not compatiable with javascript, and Javascript itself...oof...
> If aerospace engineers built airplanes the way you (or me) code, they'd be in prison.
Really? I don't recall anyone going to prison for the 737 MAX. Not even the engineers reviewing the code written by the offshored 9$/h programmers Boeing hired...
> the HTTP standard has flaws allowing Request Smuggling
As if the building code didn't too change over time.
If aerospace engineers built airplanes the way you (or me) code, they'd be in prison.
I don't think software developers have any right to criticise - we are the clowns of engineering world.
The software around me fails all the time, coffe machine refuses to make coffee becauae there is no wifi, toyota has spaghetti code controlling the accelerator, average home router has over 9000 securiry holes.
Even if you look at our industry standards, the HTTP standard has flaws allowing Request Smuggling, JSON standard is not compatiable with javascript, and Javascript itself...oof...