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by coldpie 2155 days ago
Yes. Caring about backwards compatibility is a whole universe of compromises.
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agnokapathetic 2155 days ago
There is speculation the reason Windows jumped from version Windows 8 to Windows 10 is that too many things were string matching (version ~= "Windows 9\d*")
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richardwhiuk 2155 days ago
or just .startsWith("Windows 9")
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