Topic aside, the original comment was ambiguous. Is it a middlebrow dismissal ("Pfft, their VCS is two dozen years old ..."), or is it an expression of admirati

Topic aside, the original comment was ambiguous. Is it a middlebrow dismissal ("Pfft, their VCS is two dozen years old ..."), or is it an expression of admiration ("Wow, it's pretty amazing that their version control system has stood the test of time, even when the rest of the world seems to be moving towards git!")? The pythonic tendency towards being explicit about what we mean to say serves us well even in prose. :-) I agree with the OP, it's a pretty neat engineering feat. I think the downvotes would likely have been avoided had that admiration been more clearly stated.