> Really what I’m focusing on here is the second definition and its misuse as a term to justify derision toward programming practices, languages, and software s

> Really what I’m focusing on here is the second definition and its misuse as a term to justify derision toward programming practices, languages, and software solely based on the age or appearance of said practice, language or piece of software. Get off my lawn! I have a technique that is a hideous chimera of very "modern" stuff, like async/await, extensions, prototypes, first-order functions, etc. (Spoiler: They aren't actually that "modern"), and very old techniques, like Structured Programming, backwards assignment, and hand-crafted assertions. WFM. YMMV.