On Sat, December 30, 2006 1:18 am, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > There's many a rewrite that would have been better off had your sensible > sensibilties been applied; back when I was quite damp in the auricular > regions, I watched a skilled programmer reimplement a million-line > billing system while adding New Features. The Boss was Not Happy that > the new program introduced All! New! Bugs! instead of doing *exactly* > what the old program did (hundreds of thousands of lines of COBOL, > IIRC). >
This is a paradigmatic story, reenacted again and again wherever (young) developers or inexperienced project managers decide to go fast. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
