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I agree. The first write of anything is working things out. Feeling your way, experimenting, designing and iterating. A "Complete rewrite" sounds hard, and lik
by axod 18y ago
I agree. The first write of anything is working things out. Feeling your way, experimenting, designing and iterating.
A "Complete rewrite" sounds hard, and like a big task, but usually it's a simple operation of copying existing functionality.
In my experience it's completely possible to spend 6 months writing version 1, and then completely rewrite it in a week.
- chollida1 18y ago> In my experience it's completely possible to spend 6 months writing version 1, and then completely rewrite it in a week. I'll bet Netscape wished you worked for them in 1997.
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- axod 18y agoI think quite often, rewrites are best done by 1 or maybe 2 people. I'm not sure they scale well to more.