• AAA@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    Survivorship bias. We only see the “good old programs” because the bad ones didn’t make it until now.

    • Stitch0815@feddit.org
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      6 days ago

      Yes

      And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up

      ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS

      Much less so 100s per hour

      Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt

      But not that impressive

    • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Nah. The dumpster fire known as gcc still survived until this day.

      There’s a reason why almost every new optimization/language starts with llvm.