He makes some good points - I have seen a lot of business logic being wrapped up into code & it does not make sense to through that away, but I have seen arguments completely the opposite to Joels.
For instance you should throw away any prototype code - I have worked on commercial applications that started life as demo's or proof of concept & snowballed - very ugly foundations for any major project.
The other issue is when you see an application that was designed for x but over time gets modified & evolves to handle Y. Sometimes you are going to be better off starting from scratch with the right design.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2000 11:48
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Thought for the day -- code does NOT rust
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>
> Hi folks,
> The main TurboNote deveeloper sent me the URL below. I liked
> the article so much I just had to pass it on it <g>.
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> http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$47
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>
>
> cheers,
> peter
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