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This. I was part of a team that did a rewrite of a product at a large well-known company. Also, saw rewrites happen throughout my career that I wasn't directly
by ryanackley 8y ago
This. I was part of a team that did a rewrite of a product at a large well-known company. Also, saw rewrites happen throughout my career that I wasn't directly a part of but were happening in the same company I happened to be working at.
Maybe I've been lucky but they were all raging successes. At the end everyone is relieved and happy and much back slapping ensues.
I like Spolsky's articles but I hate the dogmatic culture a writer like him creates. His article on rewrites is always a thing whenever I've been part of a discussion on rewrites. It's an anecdote, nothing more.
- kbenson 8y ago> I like Spolsky's articles but I hate the dogmatic culture a writer like him creates. But without creating that dogmatic culture, would his writing have become popular enough to be disseminated to a wide audience? Perhaps we should think of it as a corollary to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
- ryanackley 8y ago> without creating that dogmatic culture, would his writing have become popular enough to be disseminated to a wide audience Personally, I think you have the cause and effect switched around. Would his opinions be considered dogmatic if he weren't so popular?