McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:00:57PM -0400, Michael Lauzon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 19:45, Dave Cramer <davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Unfortunately it's a piece of crap.
> >
> 
> Well, they need to start somewhere, when any software starts it's a
> piece of crap, give it time.

No, if you design it (rather than evolve it) then it should be not a
piece of crap at the start.  Recovering a piece of crap into a working
system hardly ever happens.  You just end up with a bloated useless
bigger piece of crap.

Besides anything written in java can't be rescued without a rewrite in
a useful efficient language.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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