Quite the examples you name.... Google has come under quite a bit of public scrutiny for their general practice of espionage performed on the general public and

Quite the examples you name.... Google has come under quite a bit of public scrutiny for their general practice of espionage performed on the general public and I think we should notice that Chrome is part of that. I have never worked with lotus notes but I did with wordperfect. The progression seems from tool that are understandable to tools that throw away all formatting at the slightest provocation. I am not so sure about it. Of course, I personally would write all of my text in LaTeX.... And where do we start on the topic of Facebook.... maybe try to read a few HN threads regarding the subject.... Maybe I am just starting to feel old but it makes me wonder if we are not over the top in terms of software quality. As far as programming is concerned I consider tool churn as the biggest enemy of the programmer. Especially when a single product consists of too many languages which all have their associated tools. So, that would be another shot against rewriting. In any case, if you are to use the same toolchain anyway, one might as well take large portions of the existing system. Personally I can do anything I want to do with vim, c++, make, coq and LaTeX. All the rest of it has pretty much been brought in without me asking for any of it....