31 Dec
2012
31 Dec
'12
10:30 a.m.
In article <alpine.LFD.2.02.1212310929540.32632 at sidewinder.deltasoft.com>,
geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> writes:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012, Richard wrote:
Even if there were increased costs on the front end, the savings in
maintainability will win out in the long term.
Agreed, but even so, I'm not seeing 3x cost for maintainable code.
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code is about 3x the cost of a point design,
Based on what? Again, this is not in line with my experience as a
person paid to write software. On my current team, we peer review our
code through a web application called Review Board. Making code that
isn't a cheap throwaway one-off doesn't cost us 3x more.