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

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 12:26, Christopher Fulton wrote: > 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. :) Hahah, that's so true. I hate committing to an E.T.A. when working on someone elses code since it entirely depends on what the heck they did and how fast I can figure it out... especially when their commenting style is "complete lack thereof". Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'