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Will there be 20 year compatibility issues 20 years in the future?

There is nothing like the 43rd day of your life spent tracking problems due to CR / LF, different types of slashes, or Big Endian vs. Error Little Endian. These problems are 20 years old, and they make me feel that people are still cavemen. Are we just replacing these old problems with new ones? XML has helped, but aren't these problems worth millions of companies in time, money and effort? Is this a conspiracy to promote vendor-lockin?

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Yes.

However, I do not think this is a conspiracy as such. "Never belong to malice, which can be explained by incompetence."

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You can make a legal call for each item. If programs cannot read large or small digits, the data will be converted and will eventually die. But if programs continue in the Principle of Hardness - things like CR / LF, Big Little Endian and mismash HTML will last a very long time.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1706435/

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