> On Apr 29, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Al Kossow <a...@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
