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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by pjmlp on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @09:57AM (#9922265)
" We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. "

-- Rob Pike on his Slashdot interview

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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by iopq on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:47PM (#9923627)
"That's why I created a language that feels like it was made 30 years ago"
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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by digi_owl on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:37PM (#9924111)
And a hammer is perhaps as old as humanity.
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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by Confusion on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:58AM (#9929019)
The hammer has been reinvented and innovated many times. You don't use a rock strapped to a stick with leather straps, do you?
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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:35PM (#9924620)
Just because Unix is a hammer doesn't mean you shouldn't use or build jackhammers.
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Re:Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014) by digi_owl on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:14PM (#9925425)
Right tool for the job though. And all to often the attitude is that the jackhammer is always better because it is newer.
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