I maintain an analytics tool for a large newspaper. I wrote the code for it in PHP 13 years ago. The app has been running without interruption for 13 years and is used by hundreds of employees every day. Still, it needs a bit of maintenance (APIs change). The code is scary and I will probably maintain the project for the rest of my life because anyone else would pull their hair out. I'm not proud of it and write better code in the meantime, but rewriting all the code from 13 years ago would be way too expensive for the company.
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