Sure. But how much of the code you have written needs to be modified after 10 years? There's a lot of code that's being written that either won't survive 10 years, or, after having survived 10 years, will do another 10 years without modifications.

It's often not wise to pay an extra cost *now* just so you *may* save some costs in the future. The time you spend now to make code more maintainable cannot be spend on writing code that generates revenue. That's 10 years of revenue you'd have to compare against the savings of having to deal with harder to maintain code 10 years from now. Now, in some businesses coding for maintainability makes sense; I'm not arguing that. But I take issue with blanket statements - just because it sometimes makes sense, doesn't mean it always make sense.

In reply to Re^3: Legacy Code: "Dominoes = Bad" by JavaFan
in thread Legacy Code: "Dominoes = Bad" by locked_user sundialsvc4

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