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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by edoceo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:41AM (#50367182)
What language was a better choice than PHP in 2006? Or in 2001? Some times what we see (now) is a choice that looked like the best option (then) and only became less good over time. Humans do that pretty often?
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by archerx on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:45AM (#50367228)
Maybe he was a fan of cold fusion?
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by JoeBOFH on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:23AM (#50367868)
I just shuddered reading that line.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by BigTTYGothGF on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:58PM (#50370697)
Perl.
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