Strategy

[Ted Creedon]

Better to either imbed Guile in the executable or start replacing it piece
by piece.

Too many dependencies on other peoples work.

Mentor Graphics faced the same problem with 16,000,000 lines of source code
for one product written in several languages.

They laid off the US help and sent the code to India...

An object oriented data design should be done first..

Tedc


On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ross Boylan
<RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 16:40 -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> > The big question is, when is it worth it to cut your losses and
> > start over?
> I don't have strong opinions, but others do, in the opposite direction:
>
> Joel Spolsky says (in the context of Netsape)
> > single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
> > They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
>
> and also
>
> > As a corollary of this axiom, you can ask almost any programmer today
> > about the code they are working on. "It's a big hairy mess," they will
> > tell you. "I'd like nothing better than to throw it out and start
> > over."
>
> There's more in his essay "Things You Should Never Do"
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>
> Ross Boylan
>
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