>Software will become as stable as medieval architecture
No chance. Software gets abandoned all the time, and mostly for economic reasons.
No chance. Software gets abandoned all the time, and mostly for economic reasons.
I think the odds are much higher that we'll see the end of significant advancement in computing power than the odds that we'll see Linux pass into memory. In Vernor Vinge's marvelous novel A Deepness in the Sky, programmer-archeologists dig through millennia of software on a 5000 year old spaceship, but it's still running Unix underneath, because no one ever came up with anything better.
That gave a good chuckle. I'm delighted to give that book a go.