Anthony Baxter wrote: > And I would reply that sometimes a rewrite is necessary. I doubt > firefox would be at the state it is today if it was still based on > the ancient netscape codebase.
It's off-topic here certainly: but firefox is actually not a complete rewrite; it still has tons of "ancient netscape codebase" in it. The could not have completed it otherwise. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com