On Sunday 01 of May 2011 00:45:48 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Perhaps there's a "Plan 9" way to approach the problem which might > > involve a "less-huge" amount of work. > > There is nothing "Plan 9" about this. When a piece of code gets so large > as to be impossible to understand, it's time to throw it out and start > over. > > Where we as "engineers" fail is in not making the case that it is cheaper > for the corporate behemoth to re-write rather than extend, embrace, and > bloat. > > I can't get started on this right now ...
dare we say, ``Greenspun's Tenth Rule''? :D -- dexen deVries ``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''
