When you're younger, the problems are harder, and the success sweeter.
I earned my spurs (well, perhaps an enlisted stripe) back in the 1980's when I inherited a non-functional mess of an HP-85 Basic program to control an antenna test system. Many days in the Hanscom AFB RADC EE Propagation shack to get the RS-232 mag tape and IEEE HP-IB/GPIB/IEEE 488 custom hardware working. We kept bumping up against the HP-85's program storage capacity, so I had to remove most program comments, and actually shorten the variable names to get it all loaded into memory.
Then we got to fly that sucker on a pair of C-141B's from Wright Pat AFB, to Elmendorf AFB, then a flight over the North Pole, then to Thule AB, Greenland (9 days in November - do not recommend), then to RAF Lakenheath.
30 years on, I still make a living fixing crappy code.
I earned my spurs (well, perhaps an enlisted stripe) back in the 1980's when I inherited a non-functional mess of an HP-85 Basic program to control an antenna test system. Many days in the Hanscom AFB RADC EE Propagation shack to get the RS-232 mag tape and IEEE HP-IB/GPIB/IEEE 488 custom hardware working. We kept bumping up against the HP-85's program storage capacity, so I had to remove most program comments, and actually shorten the variable names to get it all loaded into memory.
Then we got to fly that sucker on a pair of C-141B's from Wright Pat AFB, to Elmendorf AFB, then a flight over the North Pole, then to Thule AB, Greenland (9 days in November - do not recommend), then to RAF Lakenheath.
30 years on, I still make a living fixing crappy code.