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From: | Rahul Singh |
Subject: | Re: [DotGNU]Dotgnu written in C#? |
Date: | Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:25:33 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 |
Sorry couldn't resist.
Perhaps if you are starting from scratch; the point is that all this stuff exists, has been hardened, debugged, tested, hammered into the ground etc. Rewrites always rewrite the bugs too.
I agree. Here is a nice article about whats bad about throwing away existing code (no matter how badly it is written).
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.htmlI also recommend the feedback and response on the article by one of Netscape's senior engineers.
My two cents. Cheers Rahul address@hidden Dawkins, David wrote:
C# is perfect to replace the nasty structs and pointers of some c code.Perhaps if you are starting from scratch; the point is that all this stuff exists, has been hardened, debugged, tested, hammered into the ground etc. Rewrites always rewrite the bugs too. Rich sounds like someone with industry experience and for what it's worth, I agree with him. Back to lurking. David Dawkins _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list address@hidden http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
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