<div dir="ltr"><br>> I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software. <div>Software as malt whisky... I like it.</div><div> Which reminds me to ask re LECBIG plans?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 15:28, Douglas Eadline <<a href="mailto:deadline@eadline.org">deadline@eadline.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">--snip--<br>
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> Unfortunately the presumption seems to be that the old is deficient<br>
> because it is old, and "my generation” didn't invent it (which is<br>
> clearly perverse; I see no rush to replace English, French, … which are<br>
> all older than any of our programming languages, and which adapt, as do<br>
> our programming languages).<br>
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I think this has a lot to do with the Fortran situation. In these "modern"<br>
times, software seems to have gone from "releases" to a "sliding<br>
constant release" cycle and anything not released in the past few<br>
months is "old."<br>
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How many people here will wait a 2-6 months before installing<br>
a "new version" of some package in production to make sure there<br>
are no major issues. And of course keep older version options<br>
with software modules. Perhaps because I've been at this a while,<br>
I have a let it "mellow a bit" approach to shinny new software.<br>
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I find it odd that Fortran gets placed in the "old software box"<br>
because it works while new languages with their constant feature<br>
churn and versions break dependency trees all over the place,<br>
and somehow that is good thing. Now get off my lawn.<br>
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Doug<br>
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