On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is also a propensity for programmers to suggest that 'everything' > should > be rewritten in whatever their language "du jour" happens to be. I'm always > astonished when someone suggests with a straight face that several million > lines > of working code they don't understand be 'scrapped' and rewritten. ROTFLMAO! I once had source from a working program that could go through either the Pascal compiler or the FORTRAN compiler. I did offer that idea as a way to avoid religious wars about programming languages... We put way too much value in upward compatible. It's hard to believe I took someone serious when he reported a problem saying "You must have changed something. It worked last time I ran this (which was 10 years ago)". Fashion is to change APIs for no reason other than to "shake off any lazy developers who are unable to keep up with change" Or applications that don't run after an upgrade because the developer decided you need to specify a new option to demonstrate you really looked at all the new options... (these are real examples) | Rob
