{"id":72,"date":"2008-11-27T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T06:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wholetomato.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-05-21T19:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T19:17:57","slug":"recursive-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/recursive-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Recursive Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first tasks at Whole Tomato was to do some code cleanup in the name of learning the Visual Assist codebase.\u00c2\u00a0 After just a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/products\/features\/findReferences.asp\">Find References<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/products\/features\/rename.asp\">Renames<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/products\/features\/goto.asp\">Goto Definitions<\/a>, I realized the recursive nature of this product:\u00c2\u00a0 I was using VA to learn VA.\u00c2\u00a0 I was using VA to refactor VA&#8217;s refactoring code.\u00c2\u00a0 I was even using the codebase as a test suite for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Most products aren&#8217;t like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly other development tools, IDEs and compilers fall into this category.\u00c2\u00a0 And perhaps source control and bug tracking tools qualify, although more indirectly.\u00c2\u00a0 But outside of software, I have trouble thinking of similar examples.\u00c2\u00a0 Manufacturing?\u00c2\u00a0 Chemical reactions?\u00c2\u00a0 Books about making books?<\/p>\n<p>What other companies use their own product in the direct production of that very product?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my first tasks at Whole Tomato was to do some code cleanup in the name of learning the Visual Assist codebase.\u00c2\u00a0 After just a few Find References, Renames, and Goto Definitions, I realized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":980745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfhqii-1a","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/980745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}