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The point of writing software isn't to maintain it forever
- Millennium 13y agoEternal maintenance is not the point of writing software; it's just an unfortunate inevitability.
- amitparikh 13y agoExactly. And the example given (cron) was designed with the Unix-mentality of writing a program that does one thing really well and does it without breaking. Yeah, sure, some may argue that cron is fairly complicated, but it doesn't suffer from the maintainability needs of a very complex piece of software like some enterprise systems.
- richo 13y agoShouldn't that be what we're striving for? Much though I really hate to admit this, npm and the node community are on the right track here.
- richo 13y agoIs it though? Take this example, there's really no reason for me to do anything EXCEPT that the upstream dependencies have been yanked. Now I need to do a bunch of porting.