Quote - Hmmm, I had thought that they had said it was going to be a re-write and then changed it to the, "changes are happening," thingy. LOL so long ago maybe it was what we were all wishing for instead of what we got.

 

I think the lack of any significant change in the UI, no significant jumps in performance and no real statement from the programers about what has been happening has lead many to belive that nothing was changing.

Quote - Now, if you re-write something for an old base, wouldn't that mean you are just improving the code to work better with the code of the old base? And, wouldn't you have to re-write it again to work with a new base code if that was done? So wouldn't you  have to re-write everything to work with the new base code to get it all to work right? I'm not a programmer so I don't know. I do know in normal everyday things that you can modify something to work with something old but adding something old onto something new is still cludging things in and does not work as well or needs to be replace with something new.

 

I have limited programing experience, and i dont know what they are working with, or how they are going about it, but in my expereince you can make such changes without problems.

a simple way of explaining it is that in a given portion of a program there is data input, the process runs, and data is output. How that process is programed or changed isn't relavent to any other portion of the program so long as that process accepts the input and produces the output.

Quote - So how many versions/years will it take to get a re-write and how far behind the curve will it be when it does get done.

 

dropping the code and rewritting from scratch would definatly put them behind the curve as they would have to fight their way back to what they have now before they could make additions. Rewriting a bit at a time alows them to keep advancing (possibley taking advantage of already updated code) as the base code is updated.

as for when it will be done.... there is no telling. there may be some portions that don't need to be rewritten and some that wont make any noticable diffrence for the user. so completing the rewrite may not be a significant event to the user.

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