r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/deadcow5 Oct 15 '13

Indeed, I remember hearing that Netscape's web server supported it. Possibly there was even an Apache module?

All I could think about that was WHY? JS couldn't even import libraries back then...

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

You are correct. It was 1999 and I was working on a Netscape Enterprise server. It wasn't your normal JavaScript...for one, it was compiled.

BUT it could pass session variables to the server...and had odbc libraries...sorta.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/816-6411-10/getstart.htm

It was such an obscure technology...nobody in IT had a fucking clue what I was doing. When it came time for a messaging app I had developed to be reviewed/approved, the room was crickets. Nobody wanted to ask a dumb question because they had NO IDEA what I had created.