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- IshKebab 6y agoAh yes the "nothing can ever change" argument. It's the reason we still code everything in FORTRAN and COBOL.
- chubot 6y agohttp://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#im-still-angry-and-i-dont-want-you-to-create-a-new-shell http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#im-still-angry-... The fallacy is: "By posting comments on the Internet, I can prevent people from using a tool I'm frustrated with. And I can make millions of lines of existing programs that I rely on go away."