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Death to the Dot (medium.com)
3 points by matthewbischoff 4315 days ago
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> When was the last time you heard someone say a phrase like “Quotebook 3 point zero point zero is so great!”? Never

Well, quite often in Minecraft.

I never heard anyone claim dBaseI was better than dBaseII though[1].

[1] dBase launched at version two because it suggests less buggy.

If I say "I didn't like version 3" that means all of the 3.x versions. If I say "I didn't like version 3.0" then maybe I liked 3.1 better. They're not the same thing.
The less program on *nix has never used the dot system -- my Mac runs less 418. You can check it out for yourself by running `less --version`
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