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Re:Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0 by coldpie on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:21PM (#23910584)
Yes. Caring about backwards compatibility is a whole universe of compromises.
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Re:Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0 by agnokapathetic on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:40PM (#23910751)
There is speculation the reason Windows jumped from version Windows 8 to Windows 10 is that too many things were string matching (version ~= "Windows 9\d*")
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Re:Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0 by richardwhiuk on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:52PM (#23910886)
or just .startsWith("Windows 9")
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