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Ten years is not a long period, unless you're a kid or adolescent. Aim for a century.
by cess11 2y ago
Ten years is not a long period, unless you're a kid or adolescent. Aim for a century.
- int_19h 2y agoSoftware engineering hasn't even been around for a century, so we don't know how to write software that lasts that long. We can only make educated guesses. But, in any case, given the current state of things, 10 years is already a massive improvement.
- cess11 2y agoWe don't? There are computer systems running since the seventies in areas like banking and aerospace, why wouldn't they last another fifty years? Most of my professional work over the last fifteen years has been on applications that were ten years or older when I was recruited. Currently I do work in public sector digital archiving, where it's common to retire systems that are still being updated and have been going since the nineties. This kind of long term storage aims for century or more.