16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
1:35 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:24:56AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 4/13/11 6:33 PM, Richard wrote:
Provide proof of this assertion, or it's bull.
As much as I'm a believer in open source, I do have to agree that there
is a lot of crappy open source code as well. Exhibit A: pretty much anything
written in PHP. As well as PHP itself. Not that I haven't seen worse things
If you
mean "a significant amount of stuff out there is essentially
unmaintainable"
you are almost certainly correct. But why is that such a big deal?
Its not a big deal to me personally, but its important to keep in mind
when people make the claim that *most* open source code is high
quality.
It isn't. from commercial "scripting languages", mind
you ;-)
On the other hand, there is also a _lot_ of very high quality code, especially
in the less shiny infrastructure area. I'd take PostgreSQL over Orrible any
day, just for starters.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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