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"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones." Epigram 120, Alan Perlis. http://www.cs.yale.edu/home
by sidpatil 6y ago
"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones."
Epigram 120, Alan Perlis.
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
- throwaway201103 6y agoThis is how IBM mainframes are still able to run COBOL binaries from many decades ago
- Pet_Ant 6y ago> adapting new machines to behave like old ones There is a great DailyWTF somewhere about a company that was using an early IBM mainframe, which when it died, instead of porting their code to the newer mainframe, the wrote an emulator. And when AIX came around they wrote a mainframe emulator to run their old emulator... This maybe the story I was misremembering the details of?: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No_Need_to_Change_It!_ https://thedailywtf.com/articles/No_Need_to_Change_It!_