Programming language failings [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
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> On 4/29/16 12:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
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>> I don't know what people do now.
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> Find libraries that other people have written, glue something together, and
> move on to the next project/job.
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> 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.

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