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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) (www.joelonsoftware.com)

submitted 7 months ago by lysdexic@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.

Can you point out a concrete example? Because you're commenting on a discussion on an essay that documents several notorious examples that demonstrate the opposite point.

[–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I’m not extremely familiar with it, but I think X11 qualifies. I think it was determined that HDR support would be basically impossible to implement.