29 Apr
2016
29 Apr
'16
1:11 p.m.
On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 4/29/16 12:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yes, backward compatibility is that a lot of people have never even heard of, let alone
care about. Sigh. Networking people tend to be better at this (though even there you can
find failures).
paul
I don't know what people do now.
Find libraries that other people have written, glue something together, and
move on to the next project/job.
Then scream if you try to rebuild it later and the new version of the libraries
didn't maintain backwards compatibility and the guy who glued it togther is gone.