Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

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Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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But in my humble opinion, those projects shouldn’t really exist.

What's the point of your opinion if not only do these projects exist but they are also pervasive?

You cannot wish things away and pretend reality is something different.

Did you just stop reading there? I was saying those projects should have atomic architectures so that “rewrite small parts when needed” can happen

It's a way of saying "these are wrong and should be deprecated."

It’s a way of saying “these are wrong and should be deprecated.”

They aren't wrong. No one in their right mind just throws away years of work delivering a stable production project just because a random clueless person in the internet said something. It's lunacy.

This thread is a great example to why despite sharing knowledge we continually fail to write software effectively.

The person you're arguing with just doesn't get it. They have their own reality.