[Python-Dev] Raising objections (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 20 07:54:01 CEST 2006


Anthony Baxter wrote:

And I would reply that sometimes a rewrite is necessary. I doubt firefox would be at the state it is today if it was still based on the ancient netscape codebase.

It's off-topic here certainly: but firefox is actually not a complete rewrite; it still has tons of "ancient netscape codebase" in it. The could not have completed it otherwise.

Regards, Martin



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