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I read this part as the author saying very diplomatically that this code was flat out bad and obscure, and not simply a different style or paradigm. I think yo
by dml2135 2y ago
I read this part as the author saying very diplomatically that this code was flat out bad and obscure, and not simply a different style or paradigm.
I think your point holds if it was in fact the latter, but with the lengths the author goes to to stress the important of diplomatic language elsewhere in the article, I think they were just being polite to their former contractors here.
- cudgy 2y agoYet, if I recall, they accepted the code into their source tree, but later judged that the style was so foreign to them that they were unable or at least unwilling to refactor or use the code in anyway. Seems if the code was flat out bad it would’ve been rejected initially.