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- Subject: [Discuss] ten more years
- From: dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:02:57 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:36:11AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > > If your answer to my "This is ridiculous!" were "Yes, but it works.", that > would be one thing. But this stuff doesn't work particularly well, and the > more modern the design the worse the results. There was a lot of stuff that > was computerized in the late '80s that still works today. How much of the > stuff we are building now has a prayer of lasting just ten years? > I think that the financial calculation engine at the heart of my company's software-as-a-service will be still recognizably a descendant of the same thing in ten years. I expect at least one, maybe two major overhauls of the web interface side in that time. I expect that ten years from now, I will still be using an editor which is a descendant of vi in some form, and many of us will still be using emacs. IPv6 will be around in ten years; IPv4, too. In ten years the Linux kernel will be at 5.something and possibly thinking about a 6.0 release. I'm hoping that in ten years, we will have a good universal interoperable protocol for messaging that includes 1:1 chat, discussion rooms, voice 1:n, voice n:n, and video 1:n and n:n -- all with as much sophistication as we presently have in the best telephone and email handling systems. (Matrix might be that protocol. Maybe.) -dsr-
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