Timeline for How much of original code is left in modern software products?
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| Feb 28, 2013 at 15:25 | history | edited | Jim G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Amplified important point.
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| Oct 8, 2012 at 8:14 | vote | accept | Anton Gogolev | ||
| Nov 1, 2011 at 12:31 | comment | added | user1249 | @kizzx2 code doesn't rust.. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 22:15 | comment | added | vartec | @Paul: well, that almost 2 decades now ;-) Yes, I totally agree that there is no point to change working code. | |
| May 20, 2011 at 17:14 | comment | added | Paul Biggar | @vartac: can't be decades, Netscape only started in 1994 ;) There's no reason to touch working old code. That's the best kind of code! If it's not working (including if it's slow), that's the only time it needs to be touched. (The defunct CVS repo is the canonical repo for code older than the hg import). | |
| May 20, 2011 at 8:43 | comment | added | vartec | @Paul: I've checked that many of these files are largely unchanged since initial Hg import of 2007. Don't really know how to get older history (now defunct CVS repo), but I'm pretty sure, large portion of that code wasn't touch in decades. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 23:22 | comment | added | Paul Biggar | The MPL requires that the "Initial developer" thing is added, but it doesn't mean that's when the file was last touched. Firefox has plenty of old code, but not if it's slow - code that is slow enough for anyone to notice gets rewritten. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 20:06 | comment | added | Anto | @Callum Rogers: It works, but not well, and it is slow... A shame how Firefox has fallen like this. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 16:49 | comment | added | Callum Rogers | Hey, it still works (probably) | |
| May 19, 2011 at 15:58 | comment | added | kizzx2 | Firefox is full of decade old code, seriously. | |
| May 19, 2011 at 12:22 | history | edited | Walter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed spelling
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| May 19, 2011 at 11:10 | history | edited | vartec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited body
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| May 19, 2011 at 10:25 | history | answered | vartec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |