Comments on: Why Most Code is Crud http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/07/21/why-most-code-is-crud/ Musings on the craft and business of software development Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:21:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marcelo http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/07/21/why-most-code-is-crud/comment-page-1/#comment-2075 Marcelo Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:27:12 +0000 http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/07/21/why-most-code-is-crud/#comment-2075 I gotta hand it to you this time, Bob. You took the cake. Truer words have probably never ( or at least close to ) never been spoken about software development. Code is just putty. Ideas are what's valuable, possibly even the algorithms. But even those have "Best if used by" date attached to them. That's because just like in 2001, after the monkey picked up the first bone and used it as a tool, it didn't take much for another to say "Hey, I can do that ! And I can swing it faster and straighter!". All code should carry a "freshness" sticker. I gotta hand it to you this time, Bob. You took the cake. Truer words have probably never ( or at least close to ) never been spoken about software development. Code is just putty. Ideas are what’s valuable, possibly even the algorithms. But even those have “Best if used by” date attached to them. That’s because just like in 2001, after the monkey picked up the first bone and used it as a tool, it didn’t take much for another to say “Hey, I can do that ! And I can swing it faster and straighter!”.

All code should carry a “freshness” sticker.

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