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Mostly because it's not clear that from-scratch rewrites produce better results. They can if the entire architecture needs to be different, but for many librar
by Natsu 5y ago
Mostly because it's not clear that from-scratch rewrites produce better results. They can if the entire architecture needs to be different, but for many libraries it just devolves into an exercise in bikeshedding.
This is particularly true of the US government which, if you've seen their IT systems, is not going to be anyone sane's first choice for doing from-scratch rewrites.
- thelittleone 5y agoI disagree. I think governments prioritise spending, jobs and votes over "better results".
- gmadsen 5y agoso you agree with the comment then? you are both criticizing the government
- thelittleone 5y agoI wrote "governments"... plural. And while both comments are critical of "governments", my comment clearly disagrees with the parent's assertion that governments do not fund whole rewrite projects "Mostly because it's not clear that from-scratch rewrites produce better results".
- Natsu 5y agoI don't dispute that governments do such things and I'm not sure how you can read that sentence to say that they do. I just said they don't generally get good results from it.