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Re:Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:08PM (#18556933)
Yes,it motivates companies not to do expensive, unnecessary, high-risk complete replacements.

This may be less fun for developers, but it's not usually a bad decision.

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Re:Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good by Chyzwar on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:09PM (#18594540)
High-risk complete replacements happen because some risk-averse developers/management resisted change for decades and now the company cannot gradually modernize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system

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Re:Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good by olliej on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:27PM (#18557067)
right?

All engineers love rewriting everything, because that's human nature: "I can totally do this better than the last person".

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