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It's really not. Software solves business problems. Code that meets its requirements needs to be left alone. Developers just changing code because they feel li
by lucumo 4y ago
It's really not.
Software solves business problems. Code that meets its requirements needs to be left alone. Developers just changing code because they feel like it need some coaching. They're wasting everybody's time for reasons that amount to "I like it My Way".
So, with normally performing developers, the only code that changes is the code that needs to change. Good or bad only has an influence on the cost of a change.
- regularfry 4y agoThat's not inconsistent with "good code will get rewritten until it's not good code." Good code that you need to change is code that can degrade as a result of that change. Nothing to do with "just changing code because they feel like it".
- lucumo 4y agoThe good code will be changed after it has ceased to be good code too. And bad code can become good code in the process of changing it. There is nothing that makes good code more or less likely to change than bad code.