http://www.programming4scientists.com/2008/10/10/everyone-wants-to-build-but-no-one-wants-to-do-the-maintenance/ Software development wisdom and common-sense for the scientist-programmer Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:05:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.programming4scientists.com/2008/10/10/everyone-wants-to-build-but-no-one-wants-to-do-the-maintenance/comment-page-1/#comment-45 ncloud Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:09:59 +0000 http://www.programming4scientists.com/?p=284#comment-45 I think developers would be much less resistant to maintaining code if 1) they didn't have to deal with the sloppy, poorly written spaghetti from that "one guy" in the department who thinks copy and paste is good code reuse, and 2) if every bug wasn't a "fire" that had to be put out yesterday. I actually like maintaining code and refactoring, when I get some time to plan and think about the changes I'm making. I think developers would be much less resistant to maintaining code if 1) they didn’t have to deal with the sloppy, poorly written spaghetti from that “one guy” in the department who thinks copy and paste is good code reuse, and 2) if every bug wasn’t a “fire” that had to be put out yesterday. I actually like maintaining code and refactoring, when I get some time to plan and think about the changes I’m making.

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