Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…
Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.
Can you point out a concrete example? Because you’re commenting on a discussion on an essay that documents several notorious examples that demonstrate the opposite point.
Ah yes those projects exist, that just are perfect and… Or wait was that a dream maybe. Anyway, I’m sure they exist. After all, there’s no universial rules, society and science doesn’t constantly evolve and improve by searching for and defining such rules since the dawn of time… Or was that a dream maybe. Anyway, I am certain this is wrong because my code is perfect
Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.
It’s almost like if universal rules for software engineering doesn’t exist… but no, that’s crazy.
Replacing code is fine. Replacing an entire product is the mistake.
Can you point out a concrete example? Because you’re commenting on a discussion on an essay that documents several notorious examples that demonstrate the opposite point.
I’m not extremely familiar with it, but I think X11 qualifies. I think it was determined that HDR support would be basically impossible to implement.
Ah yes those projects exist, that just are perfect and… Or wait was that a dream maybe. Anyway, I’m sure they exist. After all, there’s no universial rules, society and science doesn’t constantly evolve and improve by searching for and defining such rules since the dawn of time… Or was that a dream maybe. Anyway, I am certain this is wrong because my code is perfect