Andy Sy wrote: > > It is a FUNDAMENTAL PRECONDITION of Py3K that it will BE the existing > > CPython codebase, with a few changes and some cruft removed. We are > > NOT going to re-write from the ground up. If you don't know why, go > > read "http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html";. > > I found myself agreeing with that essay when I first read it, but > hindsight shows us that it was only half-right. It is very unlikely > that Firefox could have become the platform it is today had they not > completely re-engineered the architecture. > > Joel's points stand in that from-scratch rewrites are generally disastrous > for *companies* which underestimate the length of time involved (almost a > given), but because open-source projects do not need to be financially > viable in the short run, they can afford much longer gestation periods > (and often with superior results).
given the amount of money that flows into the Mozilla Foundation from various sources (mostly Google), I don't think you can draw any conclusions from the Firefox project wrt. software engineering. (other than "given a large number of volunteers, and large amounts of money from corporate sponsors, and being politically correct in geek and web design circles, you can grab a small chunk of a huge market" ;-) </F> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
