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The Star Trek: Generations Fallacy (Score:1)

by chromatic (983)

If you want a demonstration, get a computer with a fresh untouched install of a 5-year old Perl...

I'm not sure how to make it easy for people who don't upgrade their software to upgrade their software, when the defining characteristic of the group of people who don't upgrade their software is that they don't upgrade their software.
There's a point at which helping people do stupid things goes beyond negligence and on toward malice. Supporting ancient versions of Perl gets dangerously close to that lin
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  by link (3402)
  
  A 5 year old perl install is 5.8.0 (well 4 years 8 months). Is that really old enough to be called ancient?
  - Re:The Star Trek: Generations Fallacy (Score:1)
    
    by Alias (5735) on 2007.03.07 7:51 (#53545) Homepage Journal
    
    Sorry, I didn't realise you were replying to chromatic, not me.
    
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