On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/11/20 5:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Yes, if you consider the term to be synonymous with TCO, then > > naturally you'll see it as useless. But it isn't. Technical debt is a > > very specific thing and it CAN be paid off. > > We'll agree to disagree on the last bit. And I'm not the only one that > believes technical debt can never be paid off. Microsoft got fabulously > wealthy incurring vast amounts of technical debt. We can argue that > Windows is the result (it is), but what's killing Windows isn't the > technical debt. It's the cloud and the web.
So what you're showing is that, sometimes, technical debt isn't paid off. It's a bit of a logical leap to go from there to "technical debt CAN'T be paid off", don't you think? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
