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Coding isn’t hard. Writing maintainable code is. And most people learn that only after they have to modify a large system they wrote themselves.
by maxlybbert 8y ago
Coding isn’t hard. Writing maintainable code is. And most people learn that only after they have to modify a large system they wrote themselves.
- LeonB 8y agoIn each of these cases the successful professional was able to pay people to maintain and improve the software after they’d proven the code enough to make it pay for itself many times over. That’s a real mark of “maintainable” and is outside the thinking of most programmers.