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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 12:44:01 JST Ben Zanin

   @mos_8502 a good program should age like furniture; a great one should age like architecture. The very best should age like a mathematical proof.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 12:54:55 JST Ben Zanin

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     @mos_8502 I don't claim that my programs are very good, but there are two decade old scripts in my ~/bin/ which I still run weekly if not daily, and I stand by the decisions I made back when I wrote them about how much time I invested in creating them versus how long I expected to benefit from them.