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I’m struggling to think of a project that released a new version to accommodate some far-off limit that wasn’t blindsided and obsoleted by something operating o
by DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
I’m struggling to think of a project that released a new version to accommodate some far-off limit that wasn’t blindsided and obsoleted by something operating on a different paradigm - like using YYMMDD for dates, the changing it to YYYYMMDD for Y2K when they should have been using integer time_t - but then that was 32-bit and now 64-bit. But we won’t even be 10% of the way there before a relativistic-capable time system will replace it.
So why worry? We’re doomed to rewrite it anyway :)
- regularfry 9y agoTrading off a tiny design decision like that against knowing you're unlikely to have to ever revisit except in an unforeseeable situation is a pretty good place to be.