Re:Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and...
by soco on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:42AM
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If you have a problem somewhere in a mess, it will definitely hurt. What will you do then? Nevertheless, if the programmer know what they're doing I trust that the mess won't be extreme messy in the first place so maybe our argument is purely academic.
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Re:Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and...
by ToJans on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:27AM
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I have parts of code that are extremely messy, but I don't spend time on refactoring, because once it works it doesn't need any changes...
The moment it starts requiring frequent updates I'll take the time to sit down and do a proper revision or rewrite. I do tend to be very careful with my API interface FWIW...