Should I fix my code for a former employer free of charge?

[recursivelyenumerable]

they're kind of taking advantage of me, but otoh, this program I wrote for them really was kind of shitty and I feel responsible for it

[abrader]

do it.

ITs worth it for rep.

Wait - how many hours you guess?

[T234]

No.

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If it's like ten minutes of work, maybe.

[close]

[abrader]

No.

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If it's like ten minutes of work, maybe.

[close]

Rep is sometimes priceless tho - what tier is the client?

MArketing op?

[Eel O'Brian]

it's the communist thing to do

[recursivelyenumerable]

ok, fixed.  I think.  I can't test it because it's written in a proprietary embedded scripting language for a program I no longer have access to 

[T234]

HOW IN THE FUDGE DO YOU JUST UP AND MAKE A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WTF!

And how good do languages that companies use internally-only turn out? Perl and such has tons of people working with it and stuff.

[demi]

Depending on the project I'd ask for compensation

[abrader]

LOL that was so easy - its not worth rep or $$

[recursivelyenumerable]

HOW IN THE FUDGE DO YOU JUST UP AND MAKE A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WTF!


And how good do languages that companies use internally-only turn out? Perl and such has tons of people working with it and stuff.

if the language designers and implementors know what they're fucking doing it should turn out just fine, but that's rare.

there are plenty of legitimate uses for domain-specific languages.  This particular one, however, happens to be the worst programming language/environment I've ever encountered.

[T234]

Is it a security thing or what?

[recursivelyenumerable]

It's not proprietary to this company, it's proprietary to an application they use.  A horrible application, but it happens to be an industry standard.   

There was also a language proprietary to this company, which had a horrible implementation.  I rewrote the implementation from scratch and made some fixes to the language design at the same time.  As far as I know, my version which I spent several months working on was never actually used due to political issues, which is one of the reasons I'm no longer there.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Nothing nearly that interesting.  This is just Java with some features removed, a few half-assed misfeatures added, a buggy implementation and no decent tools or libraries.  Unfortunately this program doesn't provide an API for scripting in anything other than their shitty language.

[abrader]

LOGO

[Shuri]

fuck no. Ask for money. Don't be a push over.

[T234]

HAY GUYZ CHECK OUT MAH CODE:
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
#pgm1.pl - My Real Name
#

print "Hello\n";

exit;

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[PhoenixWright]

Do it once, but if they start taking advantage, just refuse outright. Few things worse than a former employer thinking you still work for them (I speak from experience.)

[recursivelyenumerable]

Logo and APL are languages with value and I resent you guys trying to associate them with ******** which is just crap.

my former boss offered to buy me lunch.  But I'm not in the area.