Invisible wrote:
>>
>> And delivered years later ;). If they had written it in Haskell, 
>> they'd actually had to rewrite it from the scratch (I'm pretty sure 
>> they've reused lots of code from earlier versions). Bye-bye for old 
>> bugs, yes. Welcome for new bugs, also yes.
> 
> Well, I'm told they rewrote a lot of it already, but yeah, you're 
> probably right...
> 

Surely yes, lots and lots of new code (hence lots and lots of new 
bugs;). But as far as I understand economic world of programming, it can 
easily be cheaper to loan (working) code from earlier version than 
rewrite from scratch (eg. some tiny applications that don't actually 
change - that would mean rewriting the *same* code again, which is 
simply stupid).

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