If you look at those three specific examples, you'll see decades of progress in the field between them. I don't think it's fair to say bad config file design, b

If you look at those three specific examples, you'll see decades of progress in the field between them. I don't think it's fair to say bad config file design, but maybe more fair to say that we've just gotten better at it as an industry over the last 30 years, and the ability to write better config files has gotten easier as well.