When Lousy Code Strikes

When Lousy Code Strikes, Google Dispatches Its Elite 'Gopher Team' | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com: " . . .The problem was the software underpinning the file server system was more than five years old. It had simply languished. “If code doesn’t receive constant love it turns to sh_t,” Fitzpatrick said. The original C++ code wasn’t well documented, its automated tests weren’t up to snuff and no one really knew how it was supposed to work. People kept making incremental changes, resulting in a patchwork programmers refer to as “spaghetti code.” The unreliability was driving the server operations team crazy, but no one had time to rewrite something that technically worked. So Fitzpatrick volunteered to do it. That’s the kind of thing he does at Google, where he’s part of an team of about 25 engineers creating a custom programming language called Go. . . ." (read more at link above)

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