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This article would have been better without the unnecessary war analogy and history lesson.

Indeed the analogy has not aged well. It's in bad taste, and somewhat offensive, to hear the term "Vietnam of programming".

Why did it not age well? Are there any new findings regarding Vietnam?

To most people in the world, "Vietnam" is not a war, and is not merely a symbol of absurdly misconceived incompetence.

Yeah, as a Vietnamese, this title definitely feels offensive to me. Maybe this article is written with American audience in mind. In Vietnam we call the war American war btw. Depends on where you are from, the title could have used the term "USA of programming" :)

The funny thing is that it references Vietnam, while the Afghanistan exit happened just a few months ago.

The first time as tragedy, the second as farce...

As expected the linked site [0] gets the history wrong, [EDIT:] blaming JFK for getting USA into a conflict that Eisenhower had stoked over both his terms. (McGovern and Buford were shot down in early 1954.) One of the great things about assassinating your own commander-in-chief is you get to blame all your own screw-ups on him. For a while at least...

[0] http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...

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