Comment Re:seen some bad shit. (Score 0) 683
I once worked for a Belgian reseller company using PROGRESS. Every procedure was build on top of another and they were all using one user authentication procedure. One day the authentication server was down and no one could log in, causing the company to be down all night (they had an Australian subdivision using their program as well) with huge losses as a result. A quick fix was introduced, replacing the 100-line authentication script:
DEFINE OUTPUT PARAMETER opSuccess AS LOGICAL.
ASSIGN opSucces = 1.
They forgot about it and only weeks after they fixed it.