[LEAPSECS] Alanna Mitchell in NYT

[Joseph Gwinn]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:26:07 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> Joseph Gwinn writes:
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>>> I believe I recently saw PHK ruminating that forward compatibility in
>>> computing is at least as important as backward compatibility because
>>> the next 30 years of software need to know where they are going.
> 
> The other side of my argument is that more software will be created
> in the next 30 years than were created in the previous 30 years,
> so if you want to optimize for more code being correct, you need
> to concentrate on getting it right for the future, not for the past.

And the likelihood is that software written (at great expense) to 
prepare for what will be in 30 years from now will be a dead loss, 
outmaneuvered by technological and scientific progress.

Joe Gwinn