Re: A Trend Towards Lower Software Maintenance Budgets?

Malcolm McLean wrote, On 30/10/07 22:58:

"editormt" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1193751241.448119.50250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

That is a vast oversimplification at the very least. I have 50,000 lines of code, is it easier to change 10 lines of code to fix an issue or rewrite the program? I have a 5 line program, is it easier to patch it for a massive change or rewrite it?
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