Alan Perlis wrote that adapting old programs to new machines often makes new machines behave like old ones.

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"Alan Perlis wrote that adapting old programs to new machines often makes new machines behave like old ones."

Perlis's epigram 120 captures the platform-transition idea by observing that porting old programs often forces new machines to imitate old ones.

Source title Epigrams in Programming

Source authors Alan J. Perlis

Source year 1982

Confidence high

Importance mid