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> The problem is that this is a whole lot of cargo cult. Please do explain. Where do I use symbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic ritua
by __jal 10y ago
> The problem is that this is a whole lot of cargo cult.
Please do explain. Where do I use symbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic rituals?
As far as the rest of it, everything accumulates cruft. That's why people write new things. And yes, there have been bad decisions. (Just, IMHO, meaningfully fewer than other OSes.) But perhaps I'm blinded by my cargo-cultish ways, can you point to an archaic limitation that you've run in to recently?
I'm ignoring "arbitrariness", as that generally is both highly opinion-driven and generally subject to correcting ignorance of the decision-making process that went it to it. So usually "arbitrary" things are actually one of the other listed categories.
- pavlov 10y agosymbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic rituals I believe that's the official tagline for GNU Autoconf?
- chetanahuja 10y agoExactly. Sometime in early 1990's, the first configure.ac file was created. Today, every configure.ac file in existence can trace it's ancestry to that original file through a long, unbroken chain of copy-paste operations.
- coldtea 10y ago>Please do explain. Where do I use symbolic representations of technology to attempt doomed magic rituals? Perhaps you are not aware that cargo cult has a metaphorical meaning in computing that's about carrying forward baggage that's not relevant, because it worked/mattered in the past, and giving the whole past thing more importance than an objective view would. >As far as the rest of it, everything accumulates cruft. That's hardly an excuse not to get rid of it periodically in the fear of losing compatibility with some 30+ year old script or device mode. Terminal EMULATORS are a perfect example in an age where someone close to 30 probably has never even seen an actual terminal.