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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Metrics! (was) Nethack! (was): AdaGames
Date: 8 Apr 2002 06:29:14 -0700
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Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3CAE0C16.5B1E974B@despammed.com>...
> > Then there was the week I decided to refactor several badly designed
> > units, and got a visit from a bemused team lead mock-castigating me
> > for making *negative* progress that week. :-)
> 
> In my fifteen or so years as a "software engineer,"
> I would estimate that about half of the bug fixes
> and 20% of the enhancements I've done have been
> accomplished by REMOVING code.

My experience jibes with that just about perfectly. I was never more
pleased than about 2 years ago when I discovered that someone had
invented a buzzword for it ("refactoring"). That makes the activity so
much more palatable to management. :-)


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