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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Michael Offel <Michael.Offel@web.de>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:33:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP1gEx0_A+BQfJLQ1jppc=-qS1DwruR_wXsP-ctqZGGnjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97305540.4426247.1310337435268.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb052>

> My overall suggestion is to begin a complete rewrite, inspired by the old
> code rather than moving a lot of "known to be somehow functional" around.

This essay is old but still relevant, I think:

  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Despite that, there are efforts to write a fresh implementation. For
example, BitCoinJ:

  http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/

It is not a complete implementation. It's targeting the "simplified
payment verification" mode as a first base, and is mostly intended for
mobile phones today as that's a niche the current codebase can't meet.
In the (very) long run, it may evolve into a full node.

> Hopefully I did not hurt someone's feelings.

The code was written by Satoshi who is long gone, and I doubt he would
care much for this type of list anyway. He was a do-er rather than a
talker.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-10 22:37 [Bitcoin-development] overall bitcoin client code quality Michael Offel
2011-07-10 23:07 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-10 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-10 23:36 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-11  2:01 ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-12  4:13   ` Alan Grimes
2011-07-12  5:19     ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-11  9:33 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2011-07-12  3:31   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-07-12  7:21   ` John Smith
2011-07-12 22:50   ` Michael Offel
2011-07-12 21:47 Michael Offel
2011-07-12 23:40 ` Gregory Maxwell
2011-07-13  0:17 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-13 11:50   ` Mike Hearn
2011-07-13 13:04     ` Andy Parkins
2011-07-13 18:37       ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-13 21:41         ` Andy Parkins

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