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I should have said "time-pressured" not lazy; but yes, bang on.
Paul
On 28-Mar-06, at 7:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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