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This article really does remind me of an old Law of Software that we used to invoke: Any sufficiently large and long-lived application will eventually re-imple
by fallous 2y ago
This article really does remind me of an old Law of Software that we used to invoke: Any sufficiently large and long-lived application will eventually re-implement the entire software stack it runs on, including the operating system.. and it will re-implement it poorly.
I'm unsure of the source for this Law, but it certainly proves correct more often than not.
- PoignardAzur 2y agoThe witty version is known as Greenspun's tenth rule: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." The general pattern is called the Inner-Platform Effect.