On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:28 PM, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > (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 >> >> >
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