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You know that thing about how old ideas in science can only really be replaced when their supporters die? Unix greybeards, this is about you.

• 192837821912 10y ago
  Sure, but the follow-up systems would be worse. I haven't seen a single actual improvement in software in 10 years. It's all churn and bloat.
  • cderwin 10y ago
    There is good and bad, but you certainly must be blind if you think the progress of technology has been relatively stagnant since the introduction of unix. Just a couple things that come to mind: * The internet (early 90s) * Wireless networking (early 2000s) * Highly portable, small, and lightweight computers (early 2010s) and all the software that supports them. These "follow-up systems" are certainnly better than their predecessors, and there are literally countless more examples (no, everything shouldn't be written in asm and c).
    • joshmarlow 10y ago
      Those are all new(ish) applications for software; the underlying software can still suck even if being used in revolutionary new applications (which I think is more what the grandparent meant).
• ChuckMcM 10y ago
  I think there is some truth to that. And I also think there is a tendency to look backward through time and come away with the wrong impression. It is starting with people new to web design wondering how anyone thought HTML was a good idea. So perhaps it's a 30 year window for it to start. In my experience it gets worse and worse over time.