30 Dec
2012
30 Dec
'12
6:18 p.m.
Engineers get paid by generating code that works within the performance capabilites of the
system it's implemented on, not how it looks. Reuseable code is about 3x the cost of a
point design, your customer wants to pay for that? No way. You want nice readable code,
change the incentives.
--- On Wed, 12/26/12, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
From: Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>
Subject: An interesting article on text-book vrs real-world programming
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 11:30 AM
Seen on one of my Google groups
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/financial_software_disasters/
Terry (Tez)