On Thursday 07 June 2007 15:28:41 Andy Lester wrote: > If I'm ever asked at a job interview "Do you mostly do new code or > maintenance programming?", I ask "Explain the difference to me."
Only monkeys do maintenance programming. Real programmers write brilliant, fantastic code using only the few idioms that monkeys understand so that monkeys can maintain it. At least, that's how I understand it. -- c