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Dates communicate useful information, but version numbers tell you other kinds of useful information that a date doesn't. If I told you that I had three versio
by computator 9y ago
Dates communicate useful information, but version numbers tell you other kinds of useful information that a date doesn't.
If I told you that I had three versions of OS X called, 2014.10.16, 2015.04.08, and 2015.09.30, all that you'd know is the release order. But if I told you that these were OS X 10.10, 10.10.3, and 10.11, you'd know that the first and third were major releases and significantly different, and that the second one was presumably a bug-fix or minor feature release.
Also, a name like OS X 10.11 is easier to remember than a date like OS X 2015.09.30.