[Info-vax] yet another sys$qiow question

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-08-12 21:23:18 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
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>> Den 2015-08-12 kl. 23:18, skrev kc at kayceesoftware.com:
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>>> It's working and bosses are happy,...
>>
>> That are the two things that says "do not touch anything" to me. :-)
> 
> Stopping at working code is a low-cost and low-effort strategy and which 
> often works for some years, but can also be how more than a few projects 
> and products end up too expensive or outclassed or even unmaintainable.
> 
> Technical debt tends to accumulate, unfortunately.
> 
>>> and hopefully they'll let me have time to switch to socket comm.
>>
>> I might have missed something at the beginning, but why mess with it, 
>> if it is working and bosses are happy?
> 
> Refactoring is generally performed to clarify code, to lower 
> maintenance, to move to common code, and/or to simplify future 
> extensibility.   Sometimes for performance or portability, too.
> 
> While it is certainly possible to spend too much time refactoring, it's 
> also possible — or even easier — to not spend enough time cleaning up 
> code, and particularly when you know and understand the code and the 
> requirements — rather than revisiting the code sometime later, when you 
> don't.
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So, you mean he should re-write everything in Basic?

:-)