Re: The design is the code?

From: Doc O'Leary (droleary.usenet_at_2005.subsume.com)
Date: 03/12/05

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    In article <423211cb$0$25038$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>,
     "Jason Hawryluk" <jh@3gcomm.fr> wrote:

    > Is it not better to think ahead ?

    No, it is not. Or, rather, it is better to think ahead than it is to
    implement ahead.

    > you may loose 5 - 10 min's coding the
    > extra criteria handlers etc for your advanced Boolean search, but if this
    > becomes a requirement in say 6 months you loose x hr's just trying to get
    > your head around the code you wrote, x min's digging up the design specs
    > and about x hr's changing and re-testing.

    And you hand way away all the support losses because people searching
    for things like "pork and beans" get back results that are out of spec.
    Coding towards an "if" is wasteful enough, but it is totally
    unprofessional if your "if" breaks what the system was intended to do.

    > Not to mention documentation, user
    > training, installation etc... If I see that I can gain and save time for my
    > self and or the user I don't care what the hell the specs say I would code
    > that puppy.

    I would fire you in a heartbeat.

    > I guess what i am trying to say is that a design is a blueprint
    > ballpark document it should not IMHO get so detailed as to say that only
    > field 1 and 4 can be sorted....Especially when the code you wrote for field
    > 1 and 4 should have the same handler and thus should work for all fields
    > with little or no changes.

    If the design is overly specific, you *change the design*. You don't
    just dream up things do in code and expect people to love it.

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