begin quoting boblq as of Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:53:34AM -0700: > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 05:45 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > > Me, I want minimum aggravation/day. But I have a hard time selling that. > > I had a friend who was a very good programmer. He always said, > "My best lines of code are those I don't write. They have no bugs > and run rally fast." He spent a lot of time just thinking about his code > and wrote really tight and very clear code.
I like. If you provide a name, I'll sigify his assertion and attribute it properly. :) > Course this was mostly > Forth, but the principle is not language specific. Heh. > In the past much of my consulting generated negative lines of code > each day as we abstracted and modularized code that had been > poorly designed in the beginning. Did you gain an insight as to why the poor design? I'm looking at some rather tight deadlines, and I can feel my design decisions shifting from "do it right" to "who cares so long as it runs"... *sigh* If you succeed in delivering under an impossible deadline, they'll merely ask you to do it again, and again, and again. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
