first i changed the topic because it does not fit anly longer to this thread Am 23.07.2011 03:41, schrieb Adam Williamson: > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:38 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> in the past there were real developers which was able to > > ah, the True Scotsman rears its head! if you are not willing to quote in a way the context does not get lost you SHOULD NOT reply, i put it at the end of my answer! my only intention is to wake up some people to remind them how quality looks like and from which point something can "sold" as GA and finally that throwing all away and start from scratch is not automatically a sign of good work rewriting from scratch CAN BE a good thing, but only if FIRST ALL the features and user-experience is covered on a new, clean and extendable code-base and AFTER that new things can be implemented why? because if you not do this maybe your low-level design does not fit the needs of the real world and then you have a problem with 3 solutions: * try to get the world turned around you and ignore it elseway * start again because your software-design was faulty * try to fix things somehow if this happens you may lose the game and finally another guy will come and start the next rewrite again in the hope make no hard mistakes the last option may end in a dirty code-base which you wanted to get rid of while you started to rewrite the software _________________ > in the past there were real developers which was able to > maintain and optimize code over a long time without > permanently break backward-compatible, these days people > start to throw away and begin from scratch in the hope > they will not make old mistakes and suboptimal software-design > again what is not true, they all make a lot of new/other mistakes > and as said - as soon as they fixed it is called "outdated" > and will be replaced again
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