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You're right about those things, but you're forgetting that we had no source control, and almost all software was closed source. You took what you were given a
by saulpw 2mo ago
You're right about those things, but you're forgetting that we had no source control, and almost all software was closed source. You took what you were given and you liked it, and you developed strong attachments to particular versions of software which you clung to well beyond its use-by date (like Python 2.7). MS-DOS 3.3 forever!
- skydhash 2mo agoWe had version control in the 70s with SCSS and then RCS. They were primitive, but a lot of software were only a few files.
- saulpw 2mo agoIn the 80s, source control was like networking. Yes some orgs had it (mostly academia) but the rest of us just had a precious floppy that we copied the known-good source onto.
- cdud3 2mo agoWe had an own good-releases directory in our svn repository! That's when you realize old habits are hard to change.
- MyHonestOpinon 2mo agoI started using SCCS in the late 80s, then RCS, then CSV, then subversion, and finally git.