Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
From: Peter Flass (Peter_Flass_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 03/22/05
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:20:53 GMT
John E. Hadstate wrote:
> We tend to justify it by saying, "it will make
> maintenance easier." Intellectual honesty suggests that if
> we did our jobs right, we wouldn't need to make maintenance
> easier.
>
You're too hard on yourself. Maintenence isn't just bugfixes, that we
can attempt to minimize, but also "enhancements" and extensions to a
program in often unforseen ways. The only thing you can do to simplify
these is to write readable code and comment liberally.
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