On 15.07.2016 15:39, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
On 15.07.2016 14:55, dalibor topic wrote: [...] And if adopting the more correct practices requires them to make a huge breaking change? Maybe even getting rid of base principles?
Commitment bias to accumulated technical debt is completely understandable. Unfortunately, it's also a bad guiding principle, as the nice picture of "shoveling forward" in http://ferd.ca/on-technical-debt-shoveling-forward.html illustrates.
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