Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Adept
From : Dr. What
Date : Wed Feb 14 2024 08:15 am

-=> Adept wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ad> Obviously, with K-Mart, it wasn't blockchain or AI that would've been
 Ad> the issue. And we're mostly talking about business people. For tech
 Ad> people, honestly, while it's exhausting to be changing things all the
 Ad> time, it's also pretty exciting to be trying new things all the time.

Trying out new things and basing a production system around something untried
are two different things.

I've experienced too much pain where we had a developer who decided New Tech X
was cool and then built a critical production process around it.  Never mind
that no one else on the team was interested in New Tech X, didn't know New Tech
X and New Tech X didn't do a much better job than the current tech.

 Ad> The other problem is that something that already works is generally
 Ad> going to outperform something that might be better, but will have
 Ad> teething problems. Sticking in the 70s is fine for a lot of things.

It depends.  This was the 1990's and they were running on hardware and software
that was way past end of life.  Now that's not a real big problem.  Many
companies out there will support you - for an arm, a leg and your first born. 
But that's usually a good indication that you should be moving on.  And they
were trying to do that, they just kept derailing themselves.


.... First, they tax incomes; now they're taxing my patience.
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