If you’re talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.
But don’t be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn’t been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.
you mispelled super interesting
You misspelled misspell 🤪
Survivorship bias
yeah, I bet there was a bunch of crap written 30y ago too, the difference was no npm or github
Not quite 30 yet but maven was released 2004 and still going strong.
Survivorship bias. We only see the “good old programs” because the bad ones didn’t make it until now.
Yes
And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up
ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS
Much less so 100s per hour
Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt
But not that impressive
Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.
Not quite, but fourth power may as well be.
That Roman road is in absolute shit condition. It used to have 2 more layers on top of those rocks, a gravel layer and a stone block finish.
That Roman road also didn’t have thousands of multi-ton vehicles rolling over it every day.
That javascript hole was probably caused by a bicycle.
