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[–] bbqchipz ago 

Some of the most important, and absolutely cannot fail pieces of software was built with software compilers from the 70s. Why? Because It's more expensive to replace than maintain. Because It's not broken, it doesn't need fixed. Because It's harder to tamper with obsolete systems because other than people that built them, nobody know's how the fuck they work in a complete sense. Your naive understanding of what constitutes a performance improvement is uninformed.

It wouldn't be a far off guess to think that it could take longer to develop new equipment and certify it through the FAA than it would be to just keep using the floppy disk for another 10 years.