> I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software. Software as malt whisky... I like it. Which reminds me to ask re LECBIG plans?
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:28, Douglas Eadline <deadl...@eadline.org> wrote: > --snip-- > > > Unfortunately the presumption seems to be that the old is deficient > > because it is old, and "my generation” didn't invent it (which is > > clearly perverse; I see no rush to replace English, French, … which are > > all older than any of our programming languages, and which adapt, as do > > our programming languages). > > > > I think this has a lot to do with the Fortran situation. In these "modern" > times, software seems to have gone from "releases" to a "sliding > constant release" cycle and anything not released in the past few > months is "old." > > How many people here will wait a 2-6 months before installing > a "new version" of some package in production to make sure there > are no major issues. And of course keep older version options > with software modules. Perhaps because I've been at this a while, > I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software. > > I find it odd that Fortran gets placed in the "old software box" > because it works while new languages with their constant feature > churn and versions break dependency trees all over the place, > and somehow that is good thing. Now get off my lawn. > > -- > Doug > > > > > > > -- > Doug > >
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