Re: Writing new code vs. re-writing someone else's code

Honestly, I think it does depend a lot on the language you are using. From my experience, most people who work in PHP tend to write more new code than those who use COBOL. [snip] There are *so* many legacy COBOL applications though that, yeah, I think a COBOL programmer will very rarely get to write anything new. [/snip] I agree. I was reading something that like 80% of the code out there (don't quote my numbers) is in COBOL and FORTRAN. Anyways, to answer your question, I spend about 30% of my time writing new code and about 70% of my time working on legacy code. Of course, often due to lacking comments most of the time spent with old code is just trying to figure out what they were doing. :) -Chris On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:13:58 +1100, Justin French <justin.french@indent.com.au> wrote: > On 21/12/2004, at 9:41 PM, Eakin, W wrote: > > > The question is, how much of your time (you, the professional PHP > > coder reading this), is spent rewriting/repairing old code vs. writing > > new code. > > When I'm working on a new project, my time is generally spent hooking > into my existing framework with new code and models. > > When I'm making changes to existing projects, I tend to be mainly > repairing, modifying and updating code, plus adding a little new code. > I'm highly addicted to cleaning and refining my old code, so if I see > something messy and have a few spare minutes, I'll always clean up old > code to make it better. > > I absolutely hate working with other people's code or inheriting a > project unless it's really clean and well thought out, and well > documented. > > --- > Justin French, Indent.com.au > justin.french@indent.com.au > Web Application Development & Graphic Design > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >