[ale] Wanted: trivial minicom-type function

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 13:08 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
>> Once it works we can improve the code as needed.
> 
> If I had a dollar for every time we said that in development I'll be
> rich.  The problem with that statement is that the reality is that
> rewrites never happen.  Forward development can't wait on rewrites.  If
> the user don't see a benefit then it never really gets scheduled in. 
> 
> After 2 years I've finally allowed one of my J2EE developers to do some
> rework for the benefit of the future.  We've always said lets just hack
> it out and we can clean it up later.  This is the life in a bazaar.

Are you kidding?  That's life in software design, regardless of the 
environment. ;)

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Until later, Geoffrey