A rewrite automatically makes things worse because you start with no code.
I figure it's one of the signs of programmer maturity, that you start to look askance at rewrites. So tempting, yet so rarely even finished let alone better.
I figure it's one of the signs of programmer maturity, that you start to look askance at rewrites. So tempting, yet so rarely even finished let alone better.
And Firefox has a good chance to become exactly what you describe with the weird cancer analogy--in fact, the nightly builds already are.