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> (Russia, US, UK, China)

+France

I find that rather offensive. Implication that what, moi can't think for myself or am a sock puppet?

> "Speak ill of no man"

Aha.

I have a "radical" idea: why not actually let the constituency of this party make the choice.

This is correct. There is a social context to this matter. The advocates of 'almost right is most cases is ok no harm done' are ignoring the (likely) operational and utility context of these tools.

Back in late 80s we were building automated Fortran to C converters. Client was in the aerospace field.

> What is the value if is done automatically, nobody learns anything and the code is just a transcript of the old one?

You may be shocked to learn that businesses using software have a different metric for the value of "code" than educating their (transient) code wranglers. The actual value of software is computational work. If a new language affords better tooling and availability of human resources, that is a win.

Sorry, but personal views? This is a matter of history. These companies made obscene profits for their owners. India and China were looted.

We have definitely experienced "boom bust cycles" since the creation of the Federal Reserve. The very first such bust was called the Great Depression.

Cubism was ultimately a dead-end as well.

Many thanks.

> So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself.

TIL that US government has pressured foreign nations to install a mystery blob in the kernel of machines that run critical software "for compliance".

If this wasn't a providential goof on the part of Crowdstrike -- the entire planet is now aware of this little known fact -- then some helpful soul in Crowdstrike has given us a heads-up.

what does archive.ph have to do with that? Isn't it just a way to get around paywall?

> its a very difficult problem to do generally.

Can you expand on this?

1 - (Application) System exist in the real world, not software. Software exists in machines.

2 - Computing is used to solve real world problem.

3 - "In building software we inevitably invent or use abstractions to represent or effect real world things." Here is the problem where we part company.

4 - Abstractions that inform computing systems are indeed useful.

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self disclosure: I've reached 'architectural orbit' numerous times in my career. 30 years later, I am sharing a subtle point. Effective software models cutout attributes of real world elements of the problem domain. All attempt to "model the world" end in tears.