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• You're doing fine (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  When I'm finished with this, I will be in exactly the same place as over a year ago. I mean, I'll be a better programmer, and know a lot more, but this code has been in production use the whole time and no one knows I've done anything at all.

  You've actually accomplished something great, then. The code will be much more maintainable. I'd see lines of code eliminated as a good metric of how much you've simplified the system.

  Throwing code out is liberating. Gets rid of bugs, too.

  I suppose this is a

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  J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
  • Re:You're doing fine (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    You've actually accomplished something great, then. The code will be much more maintainable. I'd see lines of code eliminated as a good metric of how much you've simplified the system.

    There's a scene in Revenge of the Nerds, where someone from Microsoft (I think it was Steve Ballmer) talks about what it was like working with IBM on OS/2.

    The IBM developers were stodgy old mainframe types, who were very regimented, hierarchical and by-the-book. The developers Microsoft contributed to the project wer
    • Re:You're doing fine (Score:1)

      by Timbo (4486) on 2003.10.29 16:04 (#25297) Journal

      I think maybe you meant Triumph of the Nerds [pbs.org], an excellent PBS show by Robert X. Cringely, not Revenge of the Nerds [imdb.com], an '80s teen flick with little to recommend it.

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      • Re:You're doing fine (Score:1)

        by trachtenberga (3651)

        Except Ted McGinley!