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Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development by tartoran on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @02:19AM (#22735310)
Rewriting an ugly API could be problematic if not rewritten while fresh. Once it starts being refed everywhere good luck.. I bet there are no test cases either and the task becomes daunting and expensive
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Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development by jariel on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:46PM (#22740214)
Yes, that's the thing. Exactly. APIs are by definition leaky. Look at Python v2 v3 debacle. So it has to be really well planned, even then possibly not worth it.
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