Quoting Raymond Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm just a cynic, but sometimes I think we spend more time > and effort writing code to be reusable and modifiable than if we just > rewrote it every time we needed to change it.
For example, it isn't feasible to rewrite a multithreaded web browser layout engine every time there is some turnover in a company. Or rewrite a compiler. In many applications there often isn't a smart gal to ask that can say "clearly the answer is X, just (re)do that!" A design can co-evolve with the code and both can be necessarily complex and/or delicate. But I do agree that there are banal things in this world that need to get done, and putting people in positions of authority over them tends to result in obscure `frameworks', `methodologies', and other forms of pointless confusion and obsfucation. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
