{"id":523,"date":"2005-09-08T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=523"},"modified":"2007-10-10T01:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T17:08:31","slug":"backward-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/523","title":{"rendered":"Backward Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick quasi-rant.<\/p>\n<p>Oh creative-and-innovative minds and fingers-pounding-the-keyboard influencing the human world&#8230; do place e.BackwardCompatibility beside e.Speed every time you re-design, recreate and develop things.<\/p>\n<p>Always.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring it means two things (two for now&#8230; I&#8217;ll mention the others later). One you&#8217;re insulting the previous creators\/developers\/inventors and designers. <\/p>\n<p>Not only that, you&#8217;re also insulting the user.<\/p>\n<p>Second, which can be connected or not to the first one, is&#8230; you&#8217;ve released a product that is not well planned, well organized and is not able anticipate future changes.<\/p>\n<p>In this field of binaries, bits and data, one should design\/create applications that are designed to last for decades, if not years. Something that should stand the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>(And time is one cruel alpha\/beta\/omega\/post-release tester.)<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; I know there are always situations that are exceptions&#8230; and humans tend to move if not cross the line. This is where efficient and cumbersome conversion tools must come in.<\/p>\n<p>Now the proponents of profit are shouting out the opposite of what I&#8217;m saying here. <\/p>\n<p>Money-infested-and-blinded humans, I will talk to you later&#8230; that I will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick quasi-rant. Oh creative-and-innovative minds and fingers-pounding-the-keyboard influencing the human world&#8230; do place e.BackwardCompatibility beside e.Speed every time you re-design, recreate and develop things. Always. Ignoring it means two things (two for now&#8230; I&#8217;ll mention the others later). One you&#8217;re insulting the previous creators\/developers\/inventors and designers. Not only that, you&#8217;re also insulting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomscribbles","category-workblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}