Re: Re: Re: How do you avoid "Code Burnout"?

They're not myths! They're new hires! Seriously, a lot of companies/groups use this philosophy. Cut your teeth on bug fixes and general maintenance, and then once you're familiar with things, you can create new code.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: How do you avoid "Code Burnout"? by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11 UTC
That's the difference. I'm sure these new hires would rather create new projects then maintain old ones, it's just that the people hiring them won't let them.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How do you avoid "Code Burnout"? by xdg (Monsignor) on Jul 01, 2003 at 14:26 UTC
On the other hand, I wonder if starting out on the nasty job of maintaining code before getting to write new code leads one to learn programming practices that make one's code easier to maintain... ;-) -xdg	[reply]