🚀 go-pugleaf

On Friday, in article <831720509.25896.0@thokk.demon.co.uk>
     Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" wrote:

MM> John Washington (john@wash.demon.co.uk) wrote:

MM> > A classic example of software going rusty, and the best way
MM> > to get it thru its MOT is to hack out that whole function
MM> > and weld in a nice shiny new piece.  Er, IMHO, of course.  ;-)
MM> 
MM> More likely accept its time has come and replace it with a new model.
MM> (and a whole new set of bugs)

{Sudden thought time: there might be new lurkers here who
could think I was having a go at Malcolm -- that wasn't so,
I imagine the code under discussion goes way back.}

Well, a rewrite might be nice, but I doubt if there's
enough resources available to go for revolution rather
than evolution.  I think the Grandfather's Axe model is
more appropriate -- every few years alternately replacing
the head or the shaft.

--
John Washington