On 29/10/17 01:28 PM, Anthony Youngman wrote:
On 29/10/17 17:15, Felix Miata wrote:
Right, from fixing what ain't obviously broke by replacing with scratch rewrites, whole new paradigms, and their attendant new bugs and feature losses. New does not equate to improved. New does often equate to unlearning ingrained processes impeding learning unappreciated new.
Ooh new! Shiny!
Us greybeards have been around long enough to have been burnt plenty of times by such stupidity. And yet each new generation, like lemmings, charges down the same road laughing at the *experience* of the generation before, believing that they won't fall into the traps that have caught ALL their predecessors.
+1
Cheers, Wol
Perhaps that's why the word "experience" is so often prefixed by the word "bitter'.
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