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So many pieces of truth in here. Most of them I internalized long ago, but still there is the odd one which I encountered recently. This time it's "Software rot
by radu_floricica 18y ago
So many pieces of truth in here. Most of them I internalized long ago, but still there is the odd one which I encountered recently. This time it's "Software rots if not used". It is indeed a mystery, but oh so true.
- noss 18y agoNot such a mystery. It stays the same, but dependencies continue to change and it does not participate in shaping them or being shaped by them.
- radu_floricica 18y agoNot only the dependencies, also the requirements and the people who use it. But it's more than this. I think the real lesson is that a program is always a work in progress... like a walking person, always falling forward and putting one leg after the other to stop the fall. The moment you don't touch it anymore it dies. "Working" can be a programmer writing code, or just a user putting data in, or submiting the occasional bug report... or anything. But the moment it stops interacting it gets out of sync with the world.