With apologies for any paraphrasing from my flawed memory.
"My god, you guys actually get it. I need to take some Perl people to every meeting I have, because nobody else seems to understand the importance of designing for back-compatibility properly."
-- Rob Mensching (The creator of Windows Installer XML and the WiX toolkit, the first open source project ever at Microsoft).
Hi Adam
That's all very well, as long as backwards-compatiblity is not used as a form of blackmail to stop progress.
Re:Yes, but...
chromatic on 2010-05-21T08:15:41
I thought of Internet Explorer 6 when I read this.
Re:Yes, but...
rasmoo on 2010-05-21T08:42:34
That's a whole different matter. With a good design you avoid a lot of such senseless debate.
