'bc' was first released literally half a century ago. If that is still the state of the art, I think it is absolutely fair to sound the alarm that something is

'bc' was first released literally half a century ago. If that is still the state of the art, I think it is absolutely fair to sound the alarm that something is VERY wrong with our modern software development practices. We shouldn't have to choose between "modern GUI" and "works". (For what it's worth, Qalculate destroys both bc and the Mac calculator app in both command line and GUI categories, so making working software isn't entirely a lost art.)