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by TeMPOraL 3055 days ago
> Because that is going to be the reality, not the ivory tower "well, if they did it the RIGHT way" fantasy that people have in their heads.

And if someone doubts that, remember that's what always happened in computing. That's how Lisp Machines and Smalltalk systems lost to UNIX. That's how we got C and JavaScript. Worse is better. The rule of computing under competitive, market-driven environments.

I dread to see it applied to life-critical systems.