There is this weird notion among software developers that software goes bad just like milk does.
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There is this weird notion among software developers that software goes bad just like milk does.
It literally works and will always work exactly the same way (including all good and bad things about it) as the day it was created. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@thomasfuchs various forms of tech rot are mentioned, but there's also real-world requirements creep. People and culture changes. Language changes. Even if the system is completely locked down and doesn't change a single bit, over a few decades nobody will understand what its communicating.
Floppy disk save icon for example. Most people under 30 have never seen one.
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johnefrancis@cosocial.ca eh, keep the floppy disk as far as I'm concerned. The replacement (the hard drive with a down arrow) is even stupider.
'sides... we still use the telephone handset to represent calling people.
I guess I'm old, Gen Z doesn't call people either
