On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 16:40 -0500, Donald Allen wrote: > The big question is, when is it worth it to cut your losses and > start over? I don't have strong opinions, but others do, in the opposite direction:
Joel Spolsky says (in the context of Netsape) > single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: > They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. and also > As a corollary of this axiom, you can ask almost any programmer today > about the code they are working on. "It's a big hairy mess," they will > tell you. "I'd like nothing better than to throw it out and start > over." There's more in his essay "Things You Should Never Do" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Ross Boylan _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
