Maintainability

2026-11-08T17:30:42Z

Maintainability, this is a thing coming to my mind from time to my. It is not that I am a programmer, but personally and professionally I write some code. The point is that I have to I come back some of my scripts years after I made them, so I am exposed to code maintainability (probably there is a better word for that).
Maybe you can share something about good options, but from my experience the way to have some code tan can be executed for decades is Perl. I do not like writing in Perl, but 100% of the code I did in the last 15 years is still executable with current version. I started Python already with Python 3, but anyhow a couple of time I have to adjust things. PHP was quiet problematic for me. On the other side hand, C99 was fine, but sure one faces the challenge of finding the libraries used years ago.
I had to remember this topic again because of the php2shell vulnerability. I found many sites just closing the services because they go stuck on a version breaking compatibility.

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