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by tom_ 1420 days ago
Is this supposed to be some kind of ding? Because it is (if I may be so bold) not a very good one. Like, look at dd! We're still stuck with that stupid shit after nearly 50 years. It doesn't even have POSIX-style command line arguments! 50 years.

"hasn't disappeared only in the sense any venerable UNIX utility hasn't"? "Only" doing a lot of work here! That's the most reassuring "only" I've read all day. I bet you a pound people will still be using Emacs in 2050.