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

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:21:29 GMT, "Michael Mattias"
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>"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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"...
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>Applications programmers (eg, moi) don't think in terms of "components"; 
>strangely enough, we think in terms of "applications."
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>I guess that explains as well as anything why it is 'systems' programmers

>are the ones who just couldn't cut it in applications.

I did have one applications programmer tell me that I always was a
systems programmer after he inherited some of my COBOL programs.  On
the other hand, my last three contracts were in applications where I
influenced at least one system and also provided applications
technical sup****t to a Year 2000 project.

Clark Morris
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