(Apologies for top posting; on my mobile just now.) Not true. Refactoring code is one of the main tasks of a developer. None of us produce perfect code, and some code is less perfect than other code. It's instinct to want to fix bad code when we're maintaining it or having to add new features to it.
For the same reason car enthusiasts tinker with and tune their cars, good developers will do the same with code, be it in the form of consolidating common code to include files or other ways. To not do so seems to me to avoid ones nature really! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ravi Gehlot" <r...@ravigehlot.net> Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 18:12 Subject: [PHP] Problem with Include To: "Paul M Foster" <pa...@quillandmouse.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> If something is working and you don't know exactly whats under the hood then you are wasting your time in trying to re-invent your own wheel and waste your time and resources to modify something that isn't needed to be touched. Good programmers make good use of their time as well. We need to keep in check with new technology, learn new trends and also master our weakness. If we keep changing this or that or moving that or this then oh well...there goes 1 day worth of work to figure stuff out. Just my take on this. If you think different, then no problems. Regards, Ravi. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com>wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:35:33AM -0500, David Hutto wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Ravi Gehlot <r...@ravigehlot.net> > wrote: > > > Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to > make > > > it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. > > > > > > Define working. I've had programs 'work', but more experienced would > > say it's flawed in some respect. Does it perform the immediate task? > > > > Now define pretty. Is it aesthetically pleasing to you, or to someone > > else with less, or maybe more experience. > > > > By defining the two above, you then define whether it's a problem. To > > you, or to them, or to the original designer? > > Beware of "more experienced" programmers. I recently talked to an > ex-boss of mine who had a programmer flake out on him. One of his > customers threatened to take this flaky code to another company and get > their opinion about whether it was good code or not. My ex-boss > explained that, of course, they'd shoot it down. Because that's what > programmers do-- they complain about other programmers' code. I'd never > heard that idea expressed aloud. But when I thought about it, I realized > it was true. Hell, look at the content of this list. ;-} > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
