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"ancient" doesn't mean wrong. Round wheels are ancient, it doesn't mean we should switch to the square wheels.

• cortesoft 5y ago
  It doesn't mean right either, and the person you are responding to gave specific reasons why they prefer longer.
  • kortilla 5y ago
    So it’s almost as if the “ancient” qualifier was useless.
    • cortesoft 5y ago
      Well it was clearly meant to imply that the reason we are using it is merely tradition, and that there was a reason a long time ago that no longer applies.
    • coldtea 5y ago
      It was intended to mean "relavent in old times".
• coldtea 5y ago
  >Round wheels are ancient, it doesn't mean we should switch to the square wheels. No, but it means we better use rubber wheels, not stone ones...
• hsbauauvhabzb 5y ago
  We also shouldn’t burn people deemed witches at the stake. Being ancient doesn’t make it right, either.
• mayoff 5y ago
  And we all use 80-column wheels because that's what the ancients used, by Zeus! Oh wait, we use wheels sized for their use cases…
  • jlarocco 5y ago
    Do we, though? http://www.naciente.com/essay94.htm http://www.naciente.com/essay94.htm