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Does a similar effect apply to code? Perhaps technical debt comes with punitive interest rates, making maintainers add more cruft than they otherwise would. h
by jbert 18y ago
Does a similar effect apply to code?
Perhaps technical debt comes with punitive interest rates, making maintainers add more cruft than they otherwise would.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
- haasted 18y agoIt does indeed. Things like amount of unit tests and comments are influenced heavily by this effect. It's elaborated further in The Pragmatic Programmer (http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp/the-pragmatic-programmer), which actually introduced me to the concept some time back.
- xiaoma 18y agoI've often wondered about this issue in regards to tax code. Does a massive, labyrinthine system encourage legislators to add still more layers of complexity?