Computer Archeology Solves Software Dilema

[stickmaker]

At:

http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/the-ghost-in-the-machine/

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[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

In my experience, the history of _anything_ is helpful in understanding its current form. There's an awful lot of That-was-the-best-way-then and It-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time in hardware, biology, and politics, as well as in software. And a lot of "paving the cowpaths".