In article <4be132f1$0$20639$426a7...@news.free.fr>, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: > >The more bad code (mine or not) I have to maintain (or even just read >and understand), the more I pay attention to my own design and code >quality. Sometimes you only understand why something is bad, why it is >bad and how bad it is when you have to deal with it :(
...and sometimes it takes several months of living with bad code to really understand how to rewrite it. I'm currently rewriting a chunk of bad code that merges three datasources. If I had done the rewriting five months ago (when I first started feeling that I understood the codebase well enough to do the job), I would not be doing the complete rewrite that I'm currently doing, which would have led to suboptimal code lasting longer. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." --Bill Harlan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
