Greatly misunderstood essay. What joel says is: "Once you have gained traction, never ever allow yourself to be caught without ship-able product" Also old cod

Greatly misunderstood essay. What joel says is: "Once you have gained traction, never ever allow yourself to be caught without ship-able product" Also old code indeed rusts. Framework, API, binaries, libraries change, sometimes in very subtle ways, so a perfect piece of code that was written for php 3.2, apache 1.1 and MySQL 3 and left untouched for a decade just refuses to work when php ticks from 5.3 to 5.4