[Asterisk-Dev] [Rant] [long] - code style and quality

[Steve Underwood]

Michael Giagnocavo wrote:

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>>health of a project.  I'm sure that we can find many projects that died
>>(or were rewritten from scratch) because of code style and quality
>>problems.
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>>Jeff
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>Like Netscape?
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>-Michael
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I'm not sure what your point is with that example. Netscape 4 is one of 
the few cases I have seen which looked so horrible that only truly 
radical action seemed like the way out. However, that was badly 
structured to its very heart, and bad design was the issue. Code style 
and quality were not the key factors.

Note that they basically said "we are going to go away for a rather long 
time, with no new features available. You can forget us as a competitor, 
and make hay". Well, its looking like that might have a happy ending, 
but more by luck than by judgement.

Regards,
Steve