Comments on: The Politest GTFO http://www.thebusypixel.com/2005/09/13/the-politest-gtfo/ If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bucky http://www.thebusypixel.com/2005/09/13/the-politest-gtfo/comment-page-1/#comment-219 bucky Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:52:54 +0000 http://www.thebusypixel.com/2005/09/13/the-politest-gtfo/#comment-219 Yeah thats just painful. Im sure an infrastructure change would be code hell, but if the direction they are going now is such a PITA, you have to look at how many worker hours it is to keep developing under that platform, contrasted with how many hours it is to recode with a better pattern. One thing to keep in mind is that it is not always the best idea to totally start from scratch and through out all the code, that approach won't always yield a version 5.0 (netscape cough cough). But sometimes you gotta do it. And when you think about it, some of the problems you have already solved, data access, ACLs, templating, etc, can just be refactored, and not neccessarily re-written. So it could be a very fast process. Fast until that stuff those engineers label as "Don't Touch This" in the CVS is 40,000 lines of code to extract one element out of an array, and they are just too embarassed to let that show. Yeah thats just painful. Im sure an infrastructure change would be code hell, but if the direction they are going now is such a PITA, you have to look at how many worker hours it is to keep developing under that platform, contrasted with how many hours it is to recode with a better pattern.

One thing to keep in mind is that it is not always the best idea to totally start from scratch and through out all the code, that approach won’t always yield a version 5.0 (netscape cough cough). But sometimes you gotta do it.

And when you think about it, some of the problems you have already solved, data access, ACLs, templating, etc, can just be refactored, and not neccessarily re-written. So it could be a very fast process.

Fast until that stuff those engineers label as “Don’t Touch This” in the CVS is 40,000 lines of code to extract one element out of an array, and they are just too embarassed to let that show.

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