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Joel Spolsky (FogBugz, Stack Overflow, Trello) wrote this article half a generation ago. It's about not giving in to the temptation to start from scratch when y
by OliverJones 10y ago
Joel Spolsky (FogBugz, Stack Overflow, Trello) wrote this article half a generation ago. It's about not giving in to the temptation to start from scratch when your software is ugly. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
- aminok 10y agoIronically Firefox was produced as a result of the code created from the Netscape rewrite he criticised.
- emodendroket 10y agoWhy is that "ironic?" I don't see how it disproves his point.
- aminok 10y agoFirefox was a significant improvement over the status quo in browsers when it was released.
- emodendroket 10y agoWho's to say that Netscape wouldn't have been just as good, or even better, if they'd devoted all that time to working on it instead?