i don't personally know any lazy engineers, but i do know quite a few that are scared of being the scapegoat.
i worked on a big full-text search project that never wrote its own search engine. we used OpenText pat, pls/cpl (later bought by aol), excalibur, inktomi hosted search and probablly a few that have been forgotten. these interfaces were very difficult to write because what we needed from a full-text search engine was never what was provided, they all had major bugs and performace was generally very poor. yet -- though i'm convinced it would have been easier, and the results better -- nobody had the guts to write an engine. - erik On Tue Mar 28 20:08:59 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It happens because engineers are too lazy or scared to try to > understand the code they are modifying, and a layer seems safer. My > case was 3 years of 2 code teams. Imagine 10 years of open-source- > like distributed development :-( > > Paul >
