Name: Anonymous 2018-04-18 14:21
Will software ever get so complicated and old that it becomes impossible to maintain and nobody knows how it works anymore because the original developers are gone and it was written in a language no young people learn in university and it was made using tools that are no longer supported?
Now, imagine if people’s lives depended on this code. Imagine if society itself depended on this code.
People nowadays say you don’t need to learn math because calculators exist. So the average person doesn’t know much math.
Read the novella The Machine Stop by E.M. Forster if you haven’t already.
Now, imagine if people’s lives depended on this code. Imagine if society itself depended on this code.
People nowadays say you don’t need to learn math because calculators exist. So the average person doesn’t know much math.
Read the novella The Machine Stop by E.M. Forster if you haven’t already.