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		emodendroket on May 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated > If there’s a software equivalent of a Cathedral then I still haven’t found it. Probably like, some parts of Windows or Linux, or GNU tools, or some thing like that that, while still being updated, also has ancient components hanging around.

throwaway2037 on May 16, 2023 [–]

Good point about GNU coreutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

Also: That includes the man pages. They should be around in 50 years.

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