After 33 years with linux I can confirm the tinkering but not at all the learning. I don‘t even know what to say about that „control“ part 🙃 Let‘s put linux as a religion of long outdated and inapropriate system design. Then it makes all sense.

It was wrong because it is indeed a waste of time. Linux is a wonder, where in the world can you spend that huge amount of time without achieving something?

I second that although computer scientist are one of the worst sources for expertise about software product creation

Very interesting. Sadly in the „discussion“ there is no information about the history of licenses for the project. It sounds a bit as if it was MIT at the beginning and the changed

Thanks for the „two cultures“. Didn‘t know that but it relates too many things I experienced

In pharo smalltalk we have automatic deprecation rewriting since many years. Legacy code is replaced with rules what to rewrite. When running the tests this call will instruct the refactoring engine to rewrite all users of that method. So it is basically checkout, run tests, commit to upgrade

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Great reply, thanks! So it seems I‘m your counterpart. I stopped dealing with AI things two decades ago and always trying to estimate for how long I will get away with that.
As you offered help I would be interested in elaboration of the biological part. It relates to what exactly?

Let‘s see how are the statistics in 12 months. It feels almost that it gets worse here faster

Well, let‘s see what I can do about the uninformed part.

The same you could ask about Grady Booch

Er würde ja gehen, aber er ist so sauer, dass er diesem Land nichts Gutes tun möchte

Nope. Schweigen implies „still“. The combination of both is an elativ that only some sort of people do 😉

And that is why I love german as a language. We have a word for saying nothing. It‘s „schweigen“

Beim ersten Halbsatz war ich bei dir. Aber es ist Champignons ohne Fett in die heisse Pfanne, wenn braun dann Zwiebeln und dann, was du gesagt hast.

Hätte nicht „Ich will keinen Kanzler.“ ausgereicht.