There is no such thing as
There is no such thing as
Posted Jun 19, 2014 13:43 UTC (Thu) by etienne (guest, #25256)In reply to: There is no such thing as by donbarry
Parent article: Quotes of the week
> Other, more mature areas of engineering, have developed tools, methodologies, and theory which has proven quite successful in managing complexity.
I have never really understood why people try to prove that some re-written source lines in some algorithm are correct, instead of the basic design philosophy of never re-writing anything, like in the old Smalltalk environment.
Surely, something which is currently used millions of times per second is working, and you could change the Smalltalk function - if you introduced even the most un-triggable bug you would notice immediately (by a complete crash).
Is that because under Smalltalk you cannot sell a pre-compiled application, you have to give source code, so you cannot sell software? Is that still important in those GPL days?