Monthly Archives: October 2022

Here's a great story to get you thinking about how legacy code can build up (I can't find who originally told it). At Christmas, a father prepares a Christmas ham. He cuts of both ends and puts it in the baking pan. His child asks why he cut off the two ends, wasting the meat. The father says it's how he learned it from this mother. Later, he wonders about his child's question and calls his mother to ask the same question. She can't answer however, and tells him to call his grandmother, whom she learned it…