From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <5oednT9tkvilLSSiRVn-jg@comcast.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] v8 shell Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:48:38 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8df5471a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Charles Forsyth wrote: > (that isn't to suggest that earlier things weren't much better > than some current `inventions', but that's perhaps not so > much a commendation of the old as > a condemnation of the self-styled `new'. What seems to happen a lot is that inventors of the "new" are insufficiently familiar with the "old" to properly evaluate what wins and what loses. So they make the same old mistakes in a new context.