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		gridspy 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beliefs that are true for regular software but fal... I think old in this sense is "released" rather than "beta" - it takes time to make any software reliable. Many of the examples here further prove that young software is unreliable. Remember when debuggers were young? Remember when OSes were young? Remember when multi-tasking CPUs were young? Etc...

beyarkay 4 months ago [–]

Yes this is what I was trying to say. Code that's been in production for 20 years has less bugs than code that's been around for 20 minutes

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