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Mark Bernstein is recoding a program called StorySpace which dates from 1980s?. He is blogging about it. Day 6 will give a flavour http://www.markbernstein.org
by keithpeter 15y ago
Mark Bernstein is recoding a program called StorySpace which dates from 1980s?. He is blogging about it. Day 6 will give a flavour
http://www.markbernstein.org/Mar12/Day6.html http://www.markbernstein.org/Mar12/Day6.html
He is working on a familiar design, and knows the old code. He is recoding in newer tools.
- kamaal 15y agoLook Mate, By no means Am I downplaying anybody's accomplishments nor am I trying to say that anything can be built quickly. Rome was not built in a day. Neither was Git as we know now. But given a narrow set of requirements you can get a prototype out pretty quickly. Especially today when so many reusable things are available. Linus coded up a distributed vcs(Not with all the feature we know now today) sufficient enough to host itself on a weekend. Its also depends on the Individual. Some people can sit for long hours at a stretch and focus on problems till something worthwhile comes out. Others can only do little per day. In this case it looks like a rewrite and rewrites are by no means doing something new. By now he would have had a perfect idea of what he needs to do in the entirety so he would be writing per that design one thing at a time. That is totally different that writing a self hosted vcs from scratch on weekend and then iterating and adding features over years.
- keithpeter 15y agoI was agreeing with you and providing an illustration of the working practice of a 'craftsman' programmer!