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Rule 20

Never rewrite, always fix

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 / Robert Harris / Leave a comment

There is, however, a clear line of heredity and succession which connects my 1986 computer to my bought-in-2018 one, the same way there’s a line of heredity and succession between the first Benz and the latest one…the so-called “x86 architecture”

Here’s an entertaining essay on the dangers of a clean sheet re-write, aka Rule 20.

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