Gregory's ServerFifty years is a long time for software.
Fifty years is not very long for a set of tooling.
I'm not going to rant at length about tooling today, even though it's very connected to the points I'm trying to make here.
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 So, when I say fifty years isn't a long time for tools, I'm saying that everything since code was run on the first microprocessor barely counts as a tool in my book, they just aren't stable enough yet. Which brings us to my main point. Appliances, specifically appliance grade computing. |
What I will say on the topic of tooling is that I learned to do woodworking, metalcraft, and a bunch of other artisan skills using tools that were over a century old, and they're still as usable today as they were 25 years ago when I was learning the difference between messing around to learn and crafting something carefully.
You can't say that for anything related to computers, so I'm not going to address that today.