C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of Eudora eMail client

Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by matheweis on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:07AM (#18838657)

I don’t know why you got downvotes. I cut my programming teeth on Carbon and worked my way through several ports of side projects, and you are absolutely right.

Moreover a complete rewrite doesn’t exclude any truly unique parts of the old codebase from being ported into the modern one.

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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by qubex on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:21AM (#18838731)

He might be getting downvoted for cultural reasons... in much of continental Europe knocking down and rebuilding a look-alike house from scratch is tantamount to vandalism.

(I voted him up, but the analogy did make me squirm.)

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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by mikestew on Sunday January 06, 2019 @02:18PM (#18840007)

More likely, a cargo cult reaction based on a “Netscape went out of business because of a rewrite” blog post from Joel Spolsky fifteen years ago.

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