> You have a working application which is stable, you are expending > minimal effort maintaining, and suddenly someone is proposing you > spend effort/cash to give developers a warm fuzzy feeling and the end > user no actual visible benefit.
Here's what I never understood; so why not just leave the old instances running as an immutable snapshot? We all know backwards compatibility rarely holds out in practice anyway, i.e. localization rules change and I remember suites like Oracle's Discoverer would refuse to run on 1.6 for years (stopped tracking it).That way, we might actually also manage to evolve the language itself to cater to best-practice and address shortcomings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
