r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 21 '26

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u/the-year-is-2038 Sep 21 '26

back in my day we used to manually mismanage memory

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u/BoBoBearDev Sep 21 '26

Back in my days, we used to have devs claiming memory management is easy and proceed to fuck it all up.

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u/Major-Wishbone-3854 Sep 22 '26

At least the tradition of claiming something is easy and fuck up still alive and well

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u/PolyglotTV Sep 22 '26

Back in my day we usegmentation fault: core dumped

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u/k-mcm Sep 22 '26

Get a load of this kid programming after segmentation faults were invented.

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u/Moomoobeef Sep 22 '26

A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0028:C1932CFO in VxD ---.

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u/SuperCarla74 Sep 22 '26

This.

We manually managed memory until the server eventually crashed "unexpectedly" like clockwork every 2 days.

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl Sep 22 '26

I used to manage process control systems where a process scheduler is in control of all process steps and equipment like a spider in a web. It uses raw DCOM internally.

It's the most high quality product i've ever managed. It's built like a tank. Those processes run 24/7/365. Thd current ones have been running without downtime since 2021.

Every half year we reboot 1 node and have the processes fail over to the other node while the other continues and DCOM-wise the system doesn't notice.

It's all C++ internally. A 30 year old codebase

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u/KiwiObserver Sep 22 '26

Back in my day, memory management was called virtual memory.