Re: [DotGNU]Dotgnu written in C#?

[Rahul Singh]

Sorry couldn't resist.

> > Perhaps if you are starting from scratch; the point is that
> > all this stuff exists, has been hardened, debugged, tested,
> > hammered into the ground etc.  Rewrites always rewrite the
> > bugs too.

I agree. Here is a nice article about whats bad about throwing away 
existing code (no matter how badly it is written).

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

I also recommend the feedback and response on the article by one of 
Netscape's senior engineers.

My two cents.

Cheers

Rahul
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Dawkins, David wrote:
> > C# is perfect to replace the nasty structs and pointers of 
> > some c code.
>
>
> Perhaps if you are starting from scratch; the point is that
> all this stuff exists, has been hardened, debugged, tested,
> hammered into the ground etc.  Rewrites always rewrite the
> bugs too.
>
> Rich sounds like someone with industry experience and for
> what it's worth, I agree with him.
>
> Back to lurking.
>
> David Dawkins
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