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Gotta call you out for a sensationalist headline and over-the-top one-sided article. People rewrite their codebases all the time, and quite often it's a very g
by megakwood 14y ago
Gotta call you out for a sensationalist headline and over-the-top one-sided article. People rewrite their codebases all the time, and quite often it's a very good idea.
- mattacular 14y agoIn other words, this is a prototypical HN submission. Progblogging is so bad.
- astrojams 14y agoI've submitted like 3 articles to hacker news, I'm clearly not a pro.
- AnswerAndForget 14y agoI think mattacular wrote about the run-of-the-mill programming blog that gets submitted to HN. They feel more substantial than one of those spammy "125 free icon sets that'll turn you into a Design god", but they're mostly half-baked regurgitations of Software Engineering folk-wisdom, rehashed from a dozen other blogs which quote some testimony from a famous book. No code, no maths, no algorithms, no statistics, no nothing.
- napillo 14y agoTake for example my company's product. It's old, written with a mix of Pascal, Cobol, VB and C#. The VB for the user interface is now at a point where it's causing problems, and there aren't a lot of developers who want to work on VB6 applications. Not to mention it's 12 years out of date. Never rewrite your code? Yea right, I'll just leave all this cruft here so that in the future nobody can even put together a development system to build the thing.