Gregory Szorc wrote:
Do you doubt the abilities of good programmers?
I certainly do, when they're students who are working alone and who might disappear from the face of the planet after SoC finishes, as turns out to be the case with a vast majority of SoC projects.
Think of the proposal as a glorified code audit/refactorization.
A rewrite implies starting from scratch. Making the MW code less ugly, which is what it sounds like you want do, is another matter entirely.