Counter-point: Maintenance programming is where ambition and creativity go to diehttps://twitter.com/PicardTips/status/1043609562320855040 …
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Replying to @slava_pestov
Counter-counter: glorifying creativity and identifying it with ambition is the very problem being discussed here. It is not lesser engineering to have the ambition of maintaining a system well.
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Replying to @graydon_pub @slava_pestov
Counter-counter-counter point: sometimes, the best way to maintain a system is to reimplement it better using better technology and hindsight... and the willingness to throw away one due to second system effect.
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counter^4-point: ship of theseus by "maintenance."
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I don't understand the relevance of that ship. Once you kill the "Minotaur" of software complexity, you come back home with the wrong sail color and your father commits suicide?
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