Re: How important is software maintenance?

John Slimick <slimick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2007-07-23, martinig <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Methods & Tools is currently conducting a one-question poll to know
What part of your software development budget is devoted to
maintenance.

Go to www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/vote.php to participate and to
see intermediate results.


Having spent some time doing software maintenance for money,
I can not think of a more valuable area for CS education.
Here are some of the reasons:

Indeed. Any program starts as:

int main(void){
return(0);
}

All the rest is maintenance over this...


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