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I don't even understand why there has to be a blog post about this. When you make a major investment in a technology you don't just wake up one morning and rewr

I don't even understand why there has to be a blog post about this. When you make a major investment in a technology you don't just wake up one morning and rewrite it using another one. Thats how you lose money and your competitive edge ... I had a small PHP app that I transitioned to Ruby on Rails ... it took 2 months (mostly because I was doing it part time and was only just getting serious with Rails) and that whole time I was falling behind to a competitor because I wasn't adding new features and fixing bugs. I'm glad I did it in the long run, but still ... rewrites to take advantage of the flavor-of-the-month technology can be very overrated.

Joeri 16y ago
IMHO, beyond a certain project size, rewrites never make sense. You can build a different product to serve the same market, but there's no cost/benefit case to be made for blindly rewriting on a different platform.
stylejam 16y ago
Especially because if the main argument is that "it works" you're not discussing the merits of the language, you're simply stating that it's turing complete (yes, you can do "everything" with it) and that it works (HINT: whitespace works too - http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/). Doesn't seem very good points to me, but some kind of catch all statement: if it works for you, why in the hell should I have to question it ? :)