On 2020-09-08 6:07 p.m., Dave McGuire wrote:
On September 8, 2020 5:18:30 PM "Toby" <toby@...> wrote:
On 2020-09-08 3:32 p.m., Paul Amaranth wrote:
Gotta agree with Dave here. Software can last forever.
Not without extraordinary effort.
Didn't really want to add to an off topic thread, but just preserving
_data_ is a hard problem. Keeping programs buildable and runnable is
even harder.
Nah. Again, this is something I do every day. Replication is the key. Software is a lot easier than data in that regard. Occasionally things get lost, but really, it's been a very small percentage.
This is practice, not theory.
And to bring it back on topic, lately I've been doing it with HP measurement automation software.
OK, so you are putting in the aforementioned extraordinary effort. Cool.
--T
-Dave
