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Winning is temporary. In 1900 Britain has an empire for example. Colonialism won right? The battleship, answering machines, VHS, the compact disk, steam engines.

This "victory" is fleeting. When people people tell you C++, a language which didn't even exist when I was born, is "forever" they are merely betraying the same lack of perspective as when Britain thought its Empire would last forever.



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