Abigail wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:43:48PM +0200, Lars Thegler wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Dave Hodgkinson<daveh...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/04/a-badge-for-the-software-industrys-failures/
Or does he have a point?
No, code reuse is a *good* thing.
Sometimes.
But I've seen so much code that's needlessly convulated just so it can
just some code (or worse, that the code can be reused), that I take the
dogma "code reuse" with more salt than the yearly recommended dosis.
Especially when the code reuse in this case is JUST to get access to
strptime.
Matt.
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