Archive for February, 2008

~One Paragraph Blog: How scary is the rewrite?

Do you work in software engineering? Have you ever heard a coworker say, “I’d do X, but then I’d have to rewrite everything?” Truth is, it’s easier to rewrite everything than make small changes sometimes. How could I justify something so outlandish? Simple. The difficulty of a change (how many hiccups, how many bugs) depends [...]