What's wrong with 1975 programming (varnish-cache.org)
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SwellJoe Mar 25, 2015 | on: So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2006) | context

And, even earlier (also with excellent commentary and occasional rebuttal): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554656

_delirium Dec 5, 2012 | on: So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (2008) | context

Earlier discussion, fwiw (though it was 2 1/2 years ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1554656

Among other things, contains an interesting alternate perspective from a former Squid developer, about some of Squid's design decisions, some of which were driven by a goal of being maximally cross-platform and compatible with all possible clients/servers. Others were driven by the fact that Unix VM systems were actually not very good much more recently than 1975, like in the 1990s.