>There must be lots of legacy software from 60s/70s/80s that runs on mainframes for gov't/military/banks/insurance. It won't be replaced, but it would great to add tests when making changes to code.
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky describes in some detail the job position of programmer archaeologist (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_archaeology>). Set thousands of years in the future, such archaeologists search archives going back to the early days of Unix for useful code.
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky describes in some detail the job position of programmer archaeologist (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_archaeology>). Set thousands of years in the future, such archaeologists search archives going back to the early days of Unix for useful code.