[TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus

[Steve Johnson]

Reminds me a bit of the old saying: "This is George Washington's
Axe.  Of course, it's had six new handles and four new heads since he
owned it..."

Steve

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 "Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com>

To:
"Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com>
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Re: [TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com [1]>
 wrote:Which bringing this back to UNIX.  Linux is the UNIX 

disruptor - which is great.  Linux keeps 'UNIX' alive and getting
better.  I don't see an economic reason to replace it, but who
knows.  Maybe that's what the new good folks at Goggle, Amazon, Intel
or some University is doing.  But so far, the economics is not
there.

Speaking of how ancient code works... There's still AT&T code dating
to v5 or older in *BSD.... It's been updated, improved upon, parts
replaced, etc. But there's still some bits dating all the way back to
those early times. Having competition from Linux is great and keeps
the BSDs honest...

Warner
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