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in recent years there is much more emphasis on good practices, constant refactoring, implementing lots of tests alongside the production code, etc. I d
by JohnBooty 8y ago
in recent years there is much more emphasis on good
practices, constant refactoring, implementing lots of
tests alongside the production code, etc. I debug maybe
1-2 hours per month, as a full-time programmer.
I mean, sure, but in my career the practices you describe are rare. An awful lot of software development involves slogging through "legacy" code that is about as far away from those practices as it gets.
- wool_gather 8y agoWhat do you mean by "slogging through legacy code" if not debugging, refactoring, and (hopefully/sometimes) writing tests?
- oblio 8y agoAren't you agreeing with him? :)
- JohnBooty 8y agoYeah that's what I mean. Because I spend a lot of time slogging through legacy code, I spend a lot of time debugging.
- wool_gather 8y agoI guess I misunderstood/reversed the point you were making; sorry.
- JohnBooty 8y agoI love when a debate ends with two people realizing they essentially were agreeing all along ;-)