This link has been bookmarked by 29 people . It was first bookmarked on 22 Sep 2006, by Joel Liu.
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27 Jul 09
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5x more time spent modifying code than writing new code
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New code becomes old code almost instantly
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Only the coding in the first iteration qualifies as all new code. After the first iteration coding quickly shifts to be more and more modifying rather than new coding.
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our stabilization (aka bug fixing) milestones are as long as our new feature milestones
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Modifying code consumes much more of a professional developer's time than writing new code
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3x more time spend understanding code than modifying code
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you must understand the behavior of the code so that you can guarantee that the refactoring didn't change anything unintended
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Understanding code is by far the activity at which professional developers spend most of their time.
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I think the way most developers "understand" code is to rewrite it
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very few developers are smart enough to understand code without rewriting it.
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Nobody wants developers to reinvent the wheel (again), but reading about how a wheel works is a poor substitute for the experience of driving around on a few wheels of your own creation
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If someone were to read the source code, do you think they could learn how to play [Monopoly]?"
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I was still re-learning what the code did. Sometimes by reading carefuly the code, and sometimes by observing the functionality. But I think I would have to agree with Joel, I've never "rewritten" a mature program, something with lots of bug fixes from lots of people. You have to really understand the code and what the strange bug fixes are in order to think about how you can rework the code to include those fixes logically, rather than attatched on the end. And if you can't work that out, then I guess it's probably best to leave it.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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If you want to know how the application really works, observe carefully how users use it. Then go write your own version.
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vikramsjnvery few developers are smart enough to understand code without rewriting it. And as much as I believe in the virtue of reading code, I'm convinced that the only way to get better at writing code is to write code
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