Backwards compatibility

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planted: 19/08/2020last tended: 27/11/2021

A way to make things last.

Steve Yegge recently wrote about how "[b]ackwards compatibility keeps systems alive and relevant for decades" and mentions Emacs as a prime example.

1. Elsewhere

1.1. In my garden

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1.3. Mentions

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