Re: [NF] What’s c ontrolling U.S. nu kes ? 8-inch flop py disks

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net wrote:

 The same could be stated for VFP.

 There are also many stories of replacement system fiascos.

 I get tired of the throwaway mentality.  One poster on

alt.folklore.computers does metalwork, and some of his equipment is about a century old. Do you it might ever happen with software?

Oh, sure! Various parts of the technology need to reach a level of maturity where they are good enough, flexible enough and can't be improved on. We started working with metal 5 or 6 thousand years ago, and no doubt there are some tools that were pretty mature 500 years ago.

I'll bet vim and emacs live a long life. They already have :)