On 17 August 2015 at 07:25, Jorge Branco <jorge.d.f.bra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really >> matter who wrote it? > > I think that depending on the project and the kind of file, it does make a > difference. One of the primary problems our team faced when working on a > large brownfield enterprise project spanning several (distributed) teams was > precisely that a lot of time new features would come up that required domain > and technical knowledge about stuff written a long time ago. It was pretty > common to find out that those file's authors were no long in the company so > it was pretty painful to extend and implement features related to those > areas of code. I'd say it was in at least some cases almost as costly as > rewriting those portions from scratch.
It may be just me and my bad memory, but I'm not sure I would have an easier time than anyone else if I had to go back and change code I have written more than a year ago. That's what I meant: if the code is old enough, even the original author will have to approach it with essentially fresh eyes. (But, again, maybe it's just me.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
