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Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?


From: Kai Großjohann
Subject: Re: Is Emacs very alive, active and improving?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 15:33:26 +0200
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Emanuel Berg wrote:
> 
> "A complete rewrite..." Wouldn't that be a total
> disaster? Why would you do that? Because of hardware
> changes? Portability? Please explain :)

If the programmers don't know how to write maintainable code and don't
know how to refactor, then the code gets worse and worse and at one
point needs to be rewritten.  I heard that's not so uncommon for
commercial software projects.

Kai





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