I would genuinely love to find a job coding FORTRAN, mainly because it means I'd almost certainly be doing some kind of scientific computing. Way better than most tech jobs that involve boring CRUD work you don't care about at best, or actively making the world worse implementing the whims of some billionaire sociopath at worst.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also, the code base will likely be pretty small. If something's made to be delivered on punch cards and run on devices that measure their memory in KB or maybe MB, it's not going to be a ton of code. Even if it's pure assembly, it's going to be easier than a huge automatically generated codebase.

[–] RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rollercoaster Tycoon has joined the chat.

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

Compared with any modern codebase that's still tiny.

From what I can see Rollercoaster Tycoon was hand-written by a single person, so it by definition cannot be huge.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish that the code was open source, because it'd be super interesting to be able to look under the hood of a game like Rollercoaster Tycoon

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It kinda is. Assembly is a 1:1 machine-code equivalent, so you just have to run the game through a disassembler and you get the "source". You just dont get the documentation.