On 02/11/2020 04:38 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
It's all just different ways of accounting for the same things. In the olden days before the term "technical debt" was invented, we called this "total cost of ownership."
TCO is not a fixed number. For example, if a loan is taken to help fund a project, then the "interest debt" will be a portion of the TCO, but its amount will vary depending on the interest rate: 15% will be more interest debt than 4%. Likewise, the technical debt for a project will be higher or lower depending on the quality of the code written. I think an oft overlooked aspect of technical debt is the affect on the programmers dealing with it: frustration, burn-out, and job-seeking. -- ~Ethan~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
