Seems very fair to me.
I remember Dylan Beattie quoted something similar in one of his talks, and
I think he was quoting Douglas Adams.
Yes, here it is:-
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and
ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five
is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in
it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural
order of things.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023, 15:40 Grant Taylor, <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/31/23 9:28 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> > But look at the dates and explain to me, e.g., how z is legacy but
> > x86 is not, how z/OS is legacy but Unix is not, how COBOL and PL/I
> > are legacy but C is not.
>
> Oh! That's simple. "legacy" is what existed before the "new and hot
> thing" when someone was learning.
>
> Translation, if it existed before you entered the field, it's "old".
>
> I'm not saying that's correct. I'm just saying that simple liptmus test
> seems to cover most old / current / new both in computers and outside of
> computers.
>
> old - before you
> current - is you
> new - after you
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
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