Re: A Trend Towards Lower Software Maintenance Budgets?

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:33:27 +1300, in comp.lang.c , Ian Collins
<ian-news@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Malcolm McLean wrote:

However it is a good thing to have a buzzy term for "rewrite". "Rewrite"
carries too many negative connotations. Appearances matter. It shouldn't
be that way, but it is.

No, you should call a spade a spade. If you have to hide behind buzz
words, either your organisation and/or process is broken.

Welcome to Fantasy island. :-)

Show me a senior manager who prefers "rewrite" to "refactor", or
"sack" to "downsize" for that matter.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan
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