Mark Wooding wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > >> I did? Where did I make that assumption? > > I inferred it from the juxtaposition, apparently in error. Sorry. > >> What I said was that the model "The code is the whole team's ownership" >> doesn't work well for large projects. *One* reason it doesn't work for >> large projects is that you will invariably have cowboys who, given half a >> chance, will code irresponsibly *if you let them* by encouraging the >> attitude that, sure, that class written by the database backend team >> belongs to everyone, never mind that you're in the UI team, go right >> ahead and use whatever internals you like. > > `Cowboys' will code irresponsibly anyway; they need reeducating gently > with a stick. > Unfortunately on large projects it's impossible to avoid cowboys, and some of them are completely lost to reason.
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