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You're making some points for me. You are assuming COBOL, Windows 95, or OS/2 are bad because they're old. Such assumptions are the antithesis of "engineering."
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago
You're making some points for me. You are assuming COBOL, Windows 95, or OS/2 are bad because they're old. Such assumptions are the antithesis of "engineering."
- gjsman-1000 2y agoOld technology isn’t necessarily bad in itself. It’s well documented and understood. Where it’s bad is when the equipment to run that software no longer is manufactured. You can’t get a new computer to run Windows 95. Not even in the military. Your only option is to virtualize, adding a huge possible failure mode that was never considered previously. Where it’s bad is when changes are needed to adapt to modern environments, and nobody’s quite sure about what they are doing anymore. There’s no test suite, never was, the documentation is full of ancient and confusing terminology, mistakes are made. And on and on…
- jfengel 2y agoIt sounds as if you're saying that these were bad things because they were always bad. And maybe they were. But we might never have any software at all if we only had good software.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoI'm not saying they're bad because I don't know.
- jfengel 2y agoApologies. I misread your intentions.