> > > More specifically, I'm looking at this from a maintenance perspective. > If I > > give a programmer an existing program to modify, how long on average > will it > > take, per line of code, to analyze the program to then be able to then > make > > necessary changes. > > No way to predict. > > It all depends on whether the author (or the last person to maintain > it) was stark raving mad! > Or like a system programmer in a shop I worked in who would write extensive modifications to the operating system code at the request of management. He was a brilliant assembler programmer but hated to document. When you came to a comment in his code that said "Warning Will Robinson" you knew to read very carefully because he was using some sort strange assembler construct.
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