VWWall wrote:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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Someone once said the reason God could create the universe in six days
was because it didn't have to be backward compatible! :-)

I like that! :-)

There is a lot of truth there too. The desire for backward compatibility
(or at least compatibility with the majority of commercial software already
out there) has *got* to be holding a lot of innovation back. Sure, some
high priced applications can be recompiled for a different architecture, but
at what cost?

daestrom