On 04/20/2017 04:57 PM, Hal Murray wrote:
What's a reasonable life of a program like ntpd? [...]
Allow me to reproduce a lesson I learned the other day:
19:14 <ianbruene> One should always put a multiplier on one's estimate of
how long their code will be in use: code expected to
last
for 5 years lasting 20 got us Y2K. Code expected to last
for 50 years had better be happy running on a vital
server in the Forgotten Closet of Doom for the next 150
years.
Code randomly breaking for unforeseeable reasons is one thing; that is
what continuing support and
maintenance is for. But designing the software to break horribly after a
couple decades for perfectly
foreseeable reasons isn't going to cut it, not when dealing with core
infrastructure.
As Achim Gratz pointed out, there are still *PDP8s* running around.
--
In the end; what separates a Man, from a Slave? Money? Power?
No. A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys. -- Andrew Ryan
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