Re: [opensuse-OFFLIST-kde] KDE4/Qt4 removal from openSUSE Factory

On 3/29/19 10:23 PM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> I make no apologies if any of that offends anyone, because every time
> something vastly different and significantly improved comes on the
> scene, something from the past is bound to get broken. Demanding
> perpetual backward compatibility means only that hardware becomes
> cumbersome and difficult to maintain, and software becomes slow and
> bloated, and that is a price I for one am unwilling to accept.

Well!
Personally I think that as we go forward software becomes bloated and difficult
to maintain and the hardware has to follow and becomes cumbersome.  The ting
about those 8-bit machines and their software: there wasn't much power and
there's wasn't much address space so the code had to be lean and as such pretty
obvious.  I used to use the old book on UNIX 6 as an example to new hires to
show them how their college teachers made programming look difficult and C being
difficult.


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