What do you think are the relative expenditure on initial development and maintenance of your code base?

'cos over here your maths doesn't work, anything that is going to be used by someone else should be maintainable, one-off solutions excepted. If someone else is going to use your code they need to be able to depend on it, use modules within it for undreamed of purposes and fix it when it goes bad (and it will go bad). Unless it is allowed for in the initial design and implementation you will pay far more to "retro-fit" maintainability

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

In reply to Re^2: Legacy Code: "Dominoes = Bad" by Utilitarian
in thread Legacy Code: "Dominoes = Bad" by locked_user sundialsvc4

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