I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm amazed at the number of times the companies for which I've worked have been forced into costly data migrations just to be able to stick with a proprietary vendor who has changed the way data is stored in their a newer version, and refuses to continue to support the old version.
Yes, but in the two hours I spent learning Python, I would have already finished writing the game in Perl (and would have been playing it for an hour and a half).
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I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm amazed at the number of times the companies for which I've worked have been forced into costly data migrations just to be able to stick with a proprietary vendor who has changed the way data is stored in their a newer version, and refuses to continue to support the old version.
New Coke wasn't supposed to be the same. New Coke was supposed to be Pepsi.
Yes, but in the two hours I spent learning Python, I would have already finished writing the game in Perl (and would have been playing it for an hour and a half).