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>The core principle of computer-science is that we need to live with legacy, not abandon it. ...wat
by ycombinatrix 2y ago
>The core principle of computer-science is that we need to live with legacy, not abandon it.
...wat
- seventyone 2y agoWe still emulate a typewriter that communicates over telegraph in our modern *nix OSes. Good luck removing that and keeping everything built upon it
- Clamchop 2y agoThe legacies of systems are a practical reality, not a "core principle" of computer science, that's the issue with the claim. Computer science barely even concerns itself with the limitations of real hardware, much less giving two shits about software legacies. The conflating is no doubt coming from how many cs programs heavily comingle computer science with vocational training for becoming a programmer, but they're not the same thing.