RE: [Boston.pm] maintenance of large perl code bases

[Charles Reitzel]

Well put.

At 10:55 AM 3/13/2002 -0800, Wizard wrote:
> > One very real issue for maintenance and software engineering standards is
> > the huge productivity disparity between great engineers and normal
> > engineers.
>
>This is what I like to call the "prima-dona" argument, and is IMHO invalid.
>If you really are "30 - 60 iq points over the managers", then you should be
>MORE interested in maintaining good coding practices. If that's not the
>case, then you're either pressured (which I can sympathize with) or just
>lazy (which I can't). BAD coding practices are not something that I want MY
>code to incorporate.
>Grant M.