W Eakin wrote:
Hello,
This question could be seen as a general programming question, but
because PHP is what I know best, I'll ask it here.
A good friend of mine is the person who got me more interested in
programming as a career. She's a professional COBOL programmer, and
works for a large bank. She once told me that 75% of her time was spent
going over and rewriting/repairing old code that she didn't write, and
only 25% writing new code. From what I know about COBOL, it seems that
it might need more rewriting than other languages, because of all the
built up old code. But as I look forward to the day when I can work as a
full-time PHP coder, I wonder. The question is, how much of your time
(you, the professional PHP coder reading this), is spent
rewriting/repairing old code vs. writing new code. Although this is a
PHP list, and my question is in regards to PHP, if you want to give me
your opinion on this same question in regards to other languages you've
programmed in, I wouldn't mind.
thanks,
William
not exactly professional, but involved in a couple of projects, I can
say about 80% of my time does indeed go into rewriting old code, and
only a very limited amount into new code (since old code usually lacks
the internal support for new features, so that old code needs to be
rewritten for the small chunk of new code to work correctly)
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