"In my mind, if you can't read someone's code, you don't really know that language that well and you should read it, you will learn something."
I don't think the issue is not being able to read someone else's code; the real issue is having to take extra time to wade through someone else's poorly-written code. (This is not directed at you--I've never seen your code. I'm just referring to poorly-written code in general.) If an application is written at least marginally well and works, it will spend the vast majority of its life in maintenance mode, which is actually the most expensive part of an application's lifecycle. Saving a few seconds here and there by not typing "form" or "url" in the original code is nothing compared to the time it takes someone else to figure out what's going on months or years down the road. Code should always be written with maintenance in mind, and anything we can do when writing the original application to make maintenance easier for someone else will obviously save money (potentially a great deal of money) in the long run.
Matt ------------------------- Matthew P. Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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