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I like Donald Knuth's approach where his version numbers of TeX and Metafont asymptotically approach pi and e, respectively, emphasizing the slow approach toward perfection.



And communicating nothing to the end user except a sense of whimsy? Nah, that's useless.


What do the version numbers of programs communicate to end users anyway? Basically just that it's newer than the last version.

Libraries are a bit different though, because of semver compatibility, but unfortunately they are wrong often enough that you can't really rely on them anyway.




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