What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? 225
Idzuna writes "With the somewhat recent announcement of Tabula Rasa shutting down, I have been thinking about what will happen to the Server/Client code. Does it get used as a guide for other projects? Does it get destroyed? Or does it just sit there on a hard drive somewhere in storage? The same question applies to many other failed creations. I know the likelihood of the code being distributed freely is next to nil, as most companies probably recycle code. If a vulnerability was found in old code, it could be applied to other products that the company has released. But wouldn't it help development of different projects if such a resource was available?"
Code Heaven (Score:5, Funny)
we do. (Score:5, Funny)
We recycle code. We have to separate it ourselves though. There are code bins for C, Java, Javascript, Perl, and Python. It's pain though! Every semester some intern puts Javascript code in the Java bin and the other way around!
But it beats having the code end up in a landfill!
Depends (Score:5, Funny)
That really depends, if it fails really badly then it gets buried [wikipedia.org].
No one can really know for sure (Score:5, Funny)
Some have described a tunnel of bright light where the code executes in an infinite loop forever.
Others theorize an ultimate review where code structure is judged. Good code may branch anywhere at anytime with an infinite clock speed and infinite memory space regardless of pointer size. It is said that in the code afterlife, even vista will run quickly. Bad code, say like MS BOB, will spend eternity in some embedded device like a clapper or firmware that controls a japanese toilet.
Yucca Mountains (Score:2, Funny)
Apologies to Langston Hughes (Score:3, Funny)
What happens to a code deferred?
Is it ignored
with no more patches to come?
Or sit there, abandoned --
and never run?
Does it become obsolete
Or turn into freeware --
to become something sweet?
Maybe it's reused
To spawn newer code.
OR DOES IT EXPLODE?
it goes to code heaven (Score:2, Funny)
how do you think they got cloud computing off the ground?
if its really bad code it goes to code hell
most pieces of malware, for example, are zombie pieces of code stitched together from pieces of netscape and aol. the code devil himself is composed of the evit bit and the piece of code that confused imperial units and metric units and caused the mars climate orbiter to crash
Usually (Score:0, Funny)
Usually a program chooses exile when they face deletion. They are supposed to retun to the source, but they sometimes hide in Matrix and manifests themselvesthose werewolves, and aliens, etc in Matrix to screw with people's minds.
Re:we do. (Score:4, Funny)
Well they both have the word "Java" on it, probably easy to get confused.
Tell me about it. I've seen C# codes in C++ folder, probably because they all start with a C and # is just two pluses overlapping.
I'm only grateful the culprit didn't rename the C++ folder to C# thinking it was a typo.
Re:Code Heaven (Score:4, Funny)
I know this one! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No one can really know for sure (Score:5, Funny)
Some have described a tunnel of bright light where the code executes in an infinite loop forever.
As opposed to an infinite loop which doesn't last forever? :-)
int main(void) {
int i = 0;
while (1) {
if (i<10) {
doSomethingTenTimesInAnInfiniteLoopButNotForever();
i++;
}
doSomethingForever();
}
return 0;
}
Re:Depends (Score:1, Funny)
Nobody ever found the buried ET cartridges because Microsoft came along later, dug them up, and used the code for Windows ME.
I know ! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I know ! (Score:2, Funny)
Right, but even Larry Ellison can't buy every software company out there.
Reused! (Score:1, Funny)
Failed code is reused! It's all collected and put into the new version of Windows.
Re:Code Heaven (Score:5, Funny)
And here I was thinking that GOTO was a bad thing.
Re:Code Heaven (Score:2, Funny)
They get there via bit bucket.
Re:Code Heaven (Score:2, Funny)
When it is deleted it should return to the source! But sometimes the code chooses to remain...
Sorry, couldn't help the Matrix analogy ;-)
Re:Code is Cheap (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No one can really know for sure (Score:4, Funny)
-Lee
If you post anonymously, you aren't supposed to sign your post.......
Remember netscape, (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Code Heaven (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The developers (Score:1, Funny)
I have all copies at home.
Re:No one can really know for sure (Score:3, Funny)
You just haven't waited long enough.
Re:Depends (Score:2, Funny)
Code from failed projects? It usually ends up here: http://research.microsoft.com/ [microsoft.com]
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
So... 10K used lines gets paid more than 20K unused lines...
return 0;
Here we have one line that is used frequently! That'll be $4 million. I accept paypal.
Re:No one can really know for sure (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No one can really know for sure (Score:1, Funny)
LOL, I declare everyone who posts AC should sign their post with "lee"..
-Lee
Re:Code is Cheap (Score:3, Funny)
I make a mistake and don't make it again.....
A sentence ends in a single period.
my code is some of the best in the company
I bet you're an excellent driver, too.