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Eric Merritt wrote:
> Mr. Rosen, I would have to say that this analogy is
> completely unfit for the purpose you have put it.

Yes, I know. I was doing it deliberately in response
to that crack about coders and software engineers.

> I would have to ask, have you been a contractor for
> your entire career

Never.

> The other possibility is that you have never worked on
> project with a team of individuals (talented or
> otherwise). I really cant accept the other possibility
> that you are a new programmer with only a few months
> under your belt. I all truth I mean no disrespect, I
> just cannot fathom an experienced programmer who feels
> maintainability has no value.

I have been working as a programmer since 1983, always in
teams. I was at my previous job for eleven years, taking
the same code base (in C) from a terminal-based system to
GUIs using Windows and Motif, Java, and the web, so I certainly
understand the need for maintainability. I fail to see where
I have said that maintainability has no value.

Perhaps you are confusing mainatinability with verbosity and
lack of punctuation?