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submitted 5 days ago by carrylex@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

B-but why?

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uh… the customer is always right?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough, though I'd imagine there's some actual platform constraint to force using an old version for a new project

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that’s what it was. The software was going to be deployed to a range of aircraft of various ages and the oldest ones only supported Java 8.

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