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So the software lifecycle ends up with a sort of Zeno's paradox, each incremental maintainer understands the system less...fascinating, ty!
by refulgentis 2y ago
So the software lifecycle ends up with a sort of Zeno's paradox, each incremental maintainer understands the system less...fascinating, ty!
- Tao3300 2y agoOn sufficiently large and old code bases, yes, this is exactly the case.
- codr7 2y agoI believe pretty much anyone who has observed a few cycles can tell as much. Often the major trigger for a rewrite is that the knowledge has mostly left the building. But then there's the cognitive dissonance; because the we like pretending that the system is the knowledge and thus has economic value in itself, and that people are interchangeable. None of which is true.