Coding Horror: The Noble Art of Maintenance Programming
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I will admit that I didn’t try hard enough, but the only programming jobs I could get was as a maintenance programmer, and the hardest part of that was the hours. I literally was on call almost before pagers and cell phones, (back in 1983) almost every night and almost every weekend. The only way I could get off call was to go out of town and be unreachable. We used to take turns. Hmmm, I could have lied, but I lived to close to the worksite, and knew I would get caught. In fact, I think I did once.
As a teacher, sometimes I think all I do these days is maintenance — fixing the kiddos programming mistakes!