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by ajross
5174 days ago
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100 years sounds reasonable. Old APIs simply get frozen and new ones take their place. Apps written to .NET, for example, aren't bound by compatibility concerns with the early win32 GDI implementations. Cocoa apps aren't impacted by Carbon's compatibility concerns. What's the option? Throw whole platforms out and start over every 15 years? Does that scale? It has so far only because the industry has been growing (more smartphones than PCs, more PCs than workstations, more workstations than minicomputers, etc...). But it won't grow forever. |
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