Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Fri Aug 12 2005 11:10 pm

Bob Day wrote:

> Too bad.  My talent is designing and developing.  That's
> what I'm good at, and that's what I do.  Why should I not
> play to my best talent?

Too bad. Our customers are paying for feature X first, so we will deliver it 
as soon as possible. Then we will go to work on feature Y. This is 
_maintenance_, because we must maintain X so users can safely upgrade to Y.

Oh, you say you are good at design? Well we have this old program you could 
work on. Its behavior is all correct but the design sucks. Could you 
preserve its existing behavior while improving its design so we can start 
adding features to it again?

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  Phlip
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