From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Stuff to do
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:20:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <060928202047.ZM4360@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060927130912.GF14041@DervishD>
On Sep 27, 3:09pm, DervishD wrote:
}
} I've read some of the code in zsh and sincerely, I would start
} it from scratch.
Having worked in the software industry for going on 20 years now, I
can say with quite some confidence that once a piece of code reaches a
certain level of complexity, this is almost always the wrong approach.
Unless of course your goal is to abandon everything about the original
program and re-create only a subset -- because the chances of ever
getting back to where you started are very small.
Zsh passed that level of complexity a very long time ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-29 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 12:11 Peter Stephenson
2006-09-27 13:09 ` DervishD
2006-09-29 3:20 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2006-09-29 8:05 ` DervishD
2006-09-29 16:37 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-09-29 17:08 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-09-29 18:08 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-09-29 18:08 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-10-08 15:38 ` quest for bld_line (was: Re: Stuff to do) Andrey Borzenkov
2006-10-09 12:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-10-09 16:28 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-10-11 17:54 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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