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Sorry, but I don't agree. Really great software never ages. Like math: if it's correct, it never ages. Period. If it does age, it means it was not well engineer
by bromagosa 14y ago
Sorry, but I don't agree. Really great software never ages. Like math: if it's correct, it never ages. Period. If it does age, it means it was not well engineered from the very beginning.
«10 y.o. technologies are history. 10 y.o. software without major upgrades is dead. While 10 y.o. cars are quite good and decent.»
What about the Internet? What about LISP? What about UNIX? I could name a thousand pieces of software that date back from the 70s and are today as powerful and "new" as they were back then.
If the web does age, and it does, that should give us some pointers on what's wrong with it.
- tablet 14y agoInternet is improving. UNIX is improving -> Linux, etc. LISP? I'm not sure whether it still alive.
- bromagosa 14y agoYou're not sure whether LISP is still alive? O_O As for the Internet improving... well, during its 40 years of age we reviewed some protocols, added some others, but I'm not sure that's what the author implies. The Internet (not the web, the Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite) of today is quite the Internet of twenty years ago. But still, if you prefer to, we can go down to algorithmic level, where things never age if they're done right.