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- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Re-Use (was Re: Testing (Was: Do Software Engineers Actualy Do So Badly?))
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.043739.22178@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Firefighting
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Oct19.175954.7114@nastar.uucp> <28030014@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:37:39 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <28030014@otter.hpl.hp.com>, adw@otter.hpl.hp.com (Dave Wells) writes:
-
- > ... If a support programmer found code which
- > duplicated library functionality, he would be likely to march into the
- > development office with a demeanor similar to that he would adopt if he'd
- > found a development programmer urinating in his wastebasket. (Apologies for
- > the somewhat crude analogy, ...
-
- Well, when you look at what has been done to code in the name of
- `putting out fires,' this analogy takes on new meaning. Some of that
- code would be improved by a day or two of lining a birdcage ...
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-