The machine shop is an apples and oranges comparison, for the most part. Scrap code's value is only the time it took to write it, and often provides valuable insight into a particular problem, leading to a far faster path to the eventual solution than sitting on one's thumbs considering every possible design angle.

Perhaps a developer knows she has to link 2 tables together, but isn't quite sure whether she needs to use an inner join, left join, or right join to obtain the correct configuration. She could either spend time reading the definition of join types, trying to visualize how her data would fit together with each join, or she could simply write some code and test it out to see what happens.

In short, it could be much faster (= more economical) in computer development to do a trial and error approach than planning out every detail in advance.

In reply to Re: "Bah! Scrumbug!" (Lessons from the scrap-bin) by petecm99
in thread "Bah! Scrumbug!" (Lessons from the scrap-bin) by locked_user sundialsvc4

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