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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by IncRnd on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:13PM (#32769546)
Along those lines, Britain joined the EU a year after Smalltalk-72 and K&R C were introduced. Smalltalk inspired Objective-C, which is still used today in Macs.
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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by origin_path on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:30PM (#32770821)
The British Constitution can be seen as a large piece of legacy code which has never been tossed and rewritten from scratch, just incrementally patched and refactored over a really long period of time.

Downside: lots of bizarre complexities, bits of dead code, stuff that works as long as nobody touches it etc. Upsides: it's really stable.

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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by neilwilson on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:41PM (#32770961)
Much like our DNA.

As I get older I have more and more respect for Chestertons Fence.

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Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died by bregma on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:02PM (#32771255)
Sounds like it's time to rewrite it in Rust.
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