McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Dave Cramer]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> This is essentially what happened, and where it is.

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

This is not the  problem, and nor is java inefficient, look at the
performance comparison between C++, or even C and java. You will be amazed.

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