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> that sounds like a meaningless buzzword. I can assure you they are not meaningless buzzwords. I'd recommend reading the book before commenting since your rep
by mbesto 13y ago
> that sounds like a meaningless buzzword.
I can assure you they are not meaningless buzzwords. I'd recommend reading the book before commenting since your reply adds nothing to the discussion.
> 2. Mozilla wouldn't exist today if the Netscape team didn't destroy their company
Any source to back up the claim that the Netscape team maliciously destroyed the company? What would be their motive? From everything I've read the codebase was an absolute mess, hence the motivation for a re-write.
- lmm 13y ago>I can assure you they are not meaningless buzzwords. I'd recommend reading the book before commenting since your reply adds nothing to the discussion. Perhaps naively, I assume you hadn't realised you were talking in what sounded like meaningless buzzwords. > Any source to back up the claim that the Netscape team maliciously destroyed the company? I never claimed malice. I'm sure the decision to rewrite the code was made with the best of intentions. It still destroyed the company.
- rwallace 13y agoThe code being a mess usually calls for refactoring not rewriting. As I understand it, the showstopper that made a rewrite necessary was that they had made the mistake (understandable since they were in a desperate hurry but mistake nonetheless) of using proprietary libraries.
- 13b9f227ecf0 13y agoTechnical debt can accrue to the point where a piece of software is "bankrupt." Any successful refactoring amounts to extracting a subset and redoing everything else, which can practically amount to a rewrite.