It surely seems so, I don't deny everyone of us *feels* that way. But you can be sure that that's always easier than having to work on code you do not know with business logic you also do not know of and with all its bugs and quirks of its own.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Gary Verhaegen <gary.verhae...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
