Re: Did I write a good (efficient) program?

"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> I don't about "industry" but I have always weighed 'maintainability' 
>> very, very heavily: When was the last time you saw a program which
NEVER 
>> was upgraded/enhanced/changed?
>>
> I have dozens of them :-)
>
> They're called "components"...

Applications programmers (eg, moi) don't think in terms of "components"; 
strangely enough, we think in terms of "applications."

I guess that explains as well as anything why it is 'systems' programmers 
are the ones who just couldn't cut it in applications.

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