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Re: Style Police (a rant)

Date	2011-09-14 21:40 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Style Police (a rant)
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On 9/14/2011 8:30 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>> On 9/11/2011 11:45 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>> I agree, the problems are already more than big enough. I figure that
>>> my Java-based work only, can be described as roughly 2/3 maintenance,
>>> 1/3 new code, as of now and the past few years.
>> And 1/3 new code is probably above industry average.
>
> The distinction between "new code" and "maintenance" doesn't quite cut it.

I think it was what Arved was talking about.

> A more interesting percentage might be: maintaining one's own code versus
> maintaining someone else's code.

Maintaining one's own code is easier.

But give how much software developers move around in companies,
departments and roles then the percentage is not so high.

Arne

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  Re: Style Police (a rant) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-09-10 11:40 +0000
    Re: Style Police (a rant) Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-10 14:06 -0700
      Re: Style Police (a rant) Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-09-11 14:07 +0000
        Re: Style Police (a rant) Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-11 10:55 -0400
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