Kde3.5 / Kde4.x OR Kde3.5 / Nde1.x

[Willy K. Hamra]

Knapp wrote:
>>> Almost nothing similar in basic system management,
>> Not that I can see....  I'm still managing my system as I used to.
>>
>>> Almost nothing similar in API,
>> Certainly more true.
>>
>>> Maybe there is a lesson here. (hum ???)
>>>
>>> But with all my 30 years of computing, from punch-cards to usk-keys,
>>> I just don't know what the lesson is.    :-)
>> Nor I.
> 
> I have been a programmer for a long time also. Yes it sucks to loose
> all your work. I used to have that happen a lot because the systems
> were so poor that things go deleted or corrupted or in a very recent
> case my baby, 8 months, took my laptop highlighted the whole program
> and then typed a bunch of random letters and saved it, all in 3
> minutes while I was getting a bite to eat. Naturally your first
> reaction is one of anger and frustration. Then you calm down and just
> rewrite it. I have never had something rewritten like this not come
> out at least 3 times better than the first copy. The writing goes very
> fast with few bugs and the code is cleaner as is the design. I think
> this is because you know what not to do and you know where you were
> dumb the first time and and clean all that up and make something much
> better. In the case of open source all the dusty bits of code can be
> cleaned up also. In the end I feel that KDE4 will be a great thing,
> after we get over the fact that redoing in all sucks.
> 

i quite like the idea. i used to be frustrated when every new windows
turns out to be an improved older windows, and not a rewrite, same bugs,
same problems moving on. and then KDE4 came, and for some reason, i got
frustrated that it's a rewrite. then today, i read your email, and it
reminded me of my old windows thoughts, and made me realize that it
wasn't a bad decision to rewrite the system from scratch, thanks!

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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