Good morning to everyone else who is trying to wrap their mind around the fact that the #FAA NOTAM system was running on ***30 year old software***.
@cassandra17lina It's a notification system. Age is no more an indicator of quality and stability in software than it is in people. There are a lot of "old" systems running like champs and a lot of new ones that can't get out of the gate.
It wasn't a software issue, it was a maintenance issue, from what I have read. 🤷
@Cosmichomicide @cassandra17lina ya but old software is hard to maintain!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot
Software rot
@HumanistEngineer @cassandra17lina There's likely not a lot to maintain. Interestingly, reading that wikipedia article, it doesn't seem like any of the software rot conditions or examples would apply to this system. (Note - I do not have any intimate knowledge of its code.)