Posted by Roman on 02/13/06 02:31

rlee0001 wrote:
> Roman,
>
> In the case of an original product that you know is well written and
> supported versus what you describe as an '18 year old kid', I too would
> lean towards the original product. Many amature programmers have
> trouble reading other people's code (mainly due to lack of experience)
> and therefore have trouble modifying existing code.
>
> If this product is really so well supported couldn't you put in a
> feature request to the community itself?
>
> -Robert

PunBB seems to have big community and you are right, there may be
someone from among them willing to modify/configure the project. Did not
consider that at the moment ...

But to my original topic - generally if there is available live app and
it has say 80-90% of the required features and the code may be formatted
slightly differently than one's personal standard is but is fairly well
structured, would an average PHP programmer try to convince client that
it is better to write the new one ?

Maybe there is an inexperience behind it (like you said) or it may be a
sales tactics.

Thanks
Roman

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