Richard Taylor wrote: >Serguei wrote: >> From my experience working with a team of different >> developers this is the worst possible and a very selfish >> scenario a developer might choose to follow. > > While I agree with you in principle, reality sets in real > quick. Sometimes you simply don't have the luxury of time > & resources to completely rewrite a module to bring the > code up to today's standards. This is especially true if > you are a consultant that is being paid to provide a > specific solution, not update the entire code base. I > HATE this too, but that is life.
That's the point exactly. ONCE and only ONCE I was in a situation where one of my consultants re-wrote a ton of client code to make it look nice so that he could continue working on it in comfort. I don't remember the number of hours but it was something like 30, which I had to pay him (business decision) but which I couldn't bill my client - how can I possibly justify that much time to a client that just wanted some "simple" report enhancement? So I ate about 25 hours for nice looking code. No... Never again, thanks. Call me selfish but I won't do work that is that extensive for a client unless they sign off on it and they understand that they are getting nothing but cleaner code for the effort - sometimes I do sell that concept, but rarely. > < (The BNF is the table of valid statements.)> > I have not heard reference to BNF grammars in a > loooonnng time. Oops, showing my geeky nature. T ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
