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1. IncRnd+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-09-08 18:13:43
Along those lines, Britain joined the EU a year after Smalltalk-72 and K&R C were introduced. Smalltalk inspired Objective-C, which is still used today in Macs.
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2. origin+zk[view] [source] 2022-09-08 19:30:57
>>IncRnd+(OP)
The British Constitution can be seen as a large piece of legacy code which has never been tossed and rewritten from scratch, just incrementally patched and refactored over a really long period of time.

Downside: lots of bizarre complexities, bits of dead code, stuff that works as long as nobody touches it etc. Upsides: it's really stable.

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3. neilwi+Pm[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-09-08 19:41:06
>>origin+zk
Much like our DNA.

As I get older I have more and more respect for Chestertons Fence.

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4. bregma+zr[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-09-08 20:02:29
>>origin+zk
Sounds like it's time to rewrite it in Rust.
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