[whatroot8]

It’s all electron state in a machine.

Surely very few novel code fragments are really needed to give rise to the few we find most useful.

It’s all very ship of Theseus. Is it still C++ given all the change? Could we not have replaced some of the unsafe boards without tossing it all? Seems C++ did quite a bit in that direction.

That manliest of conditions kicked in among computer language nerds of the 90s in their 20s, IMO. Hung up on subjective artistry and sanctimonious power plays.