1 Jan
2013
1 Jan
'13
9:13 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
What horrified me was that someone had worked very hard with my original
code to emulate those long-gone instructions, instead of writing a
better editor from the ground up.
The current "groupthink" among younger programmers is "THOU SHALT NOT
REWRITE A PROGRAM FROM SCRATCH!" Also, "YOU ARE AN IDIOT FOR
REIMPLEMENTING; WHY ARE YOU NOT IMPROVING AN EXISTING IMPLEMENTATION
(preferrably, one that I use/wrote/trying to force as a standard)?"
I think both of those thoughts might be in play here ...
-spc (This is also how we end up with ten bazillion abstraction layers
these days ... )