RE: speed of writing good code

 It's only faster if you're used to doing it.  <g>  Seriously, a lot of
people who program have a lot of trouble with the idea of building a
program out of small components.  Some of them are afraid and others
really don't get the concept.  It's hard to retrain someone who has over
ten years of experience writing bad code that produces correct results.

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> >> BTW, I think in business programming (from the management/end user
> >> point of view) the first criterion is usually does it work?  The
> >> second is how fast can you write it?  Good program design
> isn't even a nice to have.
> >> If you need to take longer to design a good program than to slap
> >> something together that will work
>
> You know the silly thing is that writing good code is faster
> than writing bad code. Breaking things down into small pieces
> makes it easier to code, not harder and that, on the average,
> 70% of the work on a piece of code is going to be in
> maintenance. Writing unstructured monolith code just ends up
> taking more time.
>
> If you apply that to unnormalized databases and the time
> difference is unreal.
>
>
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