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> And yes there are pages on the internet that are older than 2006, so what? No one goes "Pffft.. this is 300 years old.." when they come across Newton's Princi
by zak_mc_kracken 11y ago
> And yes there are pages on the internet that are older than 2006, so what? No one goes "Pffft.. this is 300 years old.." when they come across Newton's Principa.
The difference is that programming languages evolve all the time. Having such an old page still up and promoted to the front page of Hacker News tells everyone that OCaml hasn't evolved since 2006.
- FraaJad 11y agoThe issue is with the moderator changing the link from an inner page pointing to (IIRC) http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/ocaml-class/userdefined.html http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/ocaml-class/userdefined.h... to the top level course page.