Re: A Trend Towards Lower Software Maintenance Budgets?

jacob navia wrote:

Malcolm McLean wrote:

"editormt" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Software maintenance is an important part of the software
development activity, but it is also the less discussed. A recent
poll seems to show that the part of maintenance in software
development budget is going down. Why?

Extreme programming. It has been recognised that it is easier to
write things from scratch than to try to endlessly patch old code.


Specially when the salary of programmers goes down and down and down.

Interesting. Over here it's going up and up and up, at least for a
subset of "programmers".

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