Recommended Reading: “All code will eventually go stale”
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
A very good (and brief) blog post over at Signal vs. Noise [link]. Some choice quotes:
“Programmers often have difficulty going back to older code bases because they don’t reflect the latest, greatest idioms.”
“Even if you take that project from three years ago and scrub it clean as can be today, it’s still going to drift from the best practices of two years from now.”
“Here’s something I don’t say often: Suck It Up. If you work on more than a few projects, they can’t all smell like today’s fresh linens.”
I definitely recommend reading the whole post.
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