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> Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. Yeah, and then you have the
by oblio 4y ago
> Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Yeah, and then you have the core banking system tied with scotch tape and bubble gum in the 1950s, that drives a business worth tens of billions of dollars and for which a modern rewrite would probably cost a billion dollars.
And then you realize some pieces of software are harder than a mountain made of titanium.