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That's funny. Grep, awk, sed, sort, uniq, emacs even. Most of these apps work and run and operate despite being old than me. Maybe the problem isn't that code

That's funny. Grep, awk, sed, sort, uniq, emacs even. Most of these apps work and run and operate despite being old than me. Maybe the problem isn't that code eventually decays maybe the problem is the vision of what something is supposed to do is lost and then it has no place later on.

bin_bash 5y ago
That's because they're not part of a living, breathing, evolving ecosystem. They're great for what they are, but services on the internet need to be constantly maintained, upgraded, and monitored. It's not that our values as engineers have shifted, it's that old software was built on static platforms that rarely changed. New software has to constantly adapt to changing conditions in terms of security, stability, and performance.