Friday, December 2, 2016

Hogwarts School and Sofware Development

I found this funny quote today in one of the Russian forums.
Here is my translation:

Hogwarts feels like a software project that is going for decades, like (insert your favorite product here). Old bugs, undocumented features that no one remembers why they been created or how to use them, incompatibilities and a lot of ancient ‘temporary’ solutions that hold all this horror together. Also, several engineers were on this project for many years, and refuse even to try to solve them explaining that that’s the way it has always been and call the whole situation the ‘school traditions’ …