"Common Lisp is about the only software I would consider declaring long attention span." COBOL. Fortran. PL/I. C. C++. Ada. Java, C#, and PHP possibly given en

"Common Lisp is about the only software I would consider declaring long attention span." COBOL. Fortran. PL/I. C. C++. Ada. Java, C#, and PHP possibly given enough time. Hopefully, Python is on that list too as it wouldn't be a bad language to get stuck in for a legacy codebase. Far as massively popular ones go, at least. ""Ship it and fix it later" was pioneered by the software industry." Planned obsolescence was pioneered by the hardware industry. Appliances especially. Software split between that and lock-in. Mainstream hardware is throw-away these days. You're right that hardware sticks around longer than a lot of software on average.