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No disrespect intended, but not all worlds are the same.

A lot (maybe most?) of software is written for explicit purposes to targeted audiences. I am not going to hire a blind person to label signs, a deaf person to review music, or an illiterate person to review books.

Sometimes you have a bunch of C++ code that works, but the difficulty of application distribution upgrade is high... okay, to the web we go!

FLASH was bad in many of the same ways; but it played a valuable role in people's lives.



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