[PRL] Code's Worst Enemy

[Mitchell Wand]

On Dec 23, 2007 10:11 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

I agree with all that. I do think academic projects have
> a special problem here: with very few exceptions,
> re-factoring is not something you can publish about and
> yet it requires a huge effort. We can't just afford it
> all.



> And the entire system actually rests on the gluing
> together of N separate existing libraries (lib scheme,
> wx:windows, and a slew of others initially and over
> the years more joined).
>

So, what can we do about this?  If this is a (the?) Big Problem, shouldn't
we be working on it?

--Mitch
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