[Cuis] A formal presentation to the list

[Ken Dickey]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:07:27 -0600
Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Casey Ransberger
> <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > There's another aspect to the rewrite vs. refactor dilemma. Often times
> > when doing a scratch rewrite of something originally written by someone
> > else, one end up making many of the same mistakes in the original design,
> > as well as new mistakes of one's own; in other words, history is important.
> 
> Wow, thanks for saying that Casey.  Sometimes I think I'm going crazy by
> this cultural obsession with "modern and shiny", but highly _inferior_,
> designs being forced on us which put form over function.

To misquote Alan Perlis, "Smalltalk is an improvement over its successors".  ;^)

-KenD