Eakin, W wrote:
> Hello,
> This question could be seen as a general programming question, but
> because PHP is what I know best, I'll ask it here.
>
> A good friend of mine is the person who got me more interested in
> programming as a career. She's a professional COBOL programmer, and
> works
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 12:26, Christopher Fulton wrote:
> Anyways, to answer your question, I spend about 30% of my time writing
> new code and about 70% of my time working on legacy code. Of course,
> often due to lacking comments most of the time spent with old code is
> just trying to figure out
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:41 +0100, Eakin, W wrote:
> Hello,
> This question could be seen as a general programming question, but
> because PHP is what I know best, I'll ask it here.
>
> A good friend of mine is the person who got me more interested in
> programming as a career. She's a profe
Honestly, I think it does depend a lot on the language you are using.
>From my experience, most people who work in PHP tend to write more new
code than those who use COBOL.
[snip]
There are *so* many legacy COBOL applications though that, yeah, I think
a COBOL programmer will very rarely get to wr
On 21/12/2004, at 9:41 PM, Eakin, W wrote:
The question is, how much of your time (you, the professional PHP
coder reading this), is spent rewriting/repairing old code vs. writing
new code.
When I'm working on a new project, my time is generally spent hooking
into my existing framework with new
Good question.
Personally, I think I tend to write more new code than reworking old
code. However, I have taken on numerous projects where I've been
required to port ASP to PHP and MSSQL dbs to Postgre or MySQL... but
these projects also require a fair bit of new code.
There are *so* many legacy
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