figuring out what to throw away in many endeavors is the hardest but most
important thing to do.
Rill -- Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 19, 2017, at 4:14 PM, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rich,
In all my 27 years as a programmer, I never came across an individual
piece of code, or a whole project, green-field or otherwise, which I
didn't want to totally throw away and start again by the time I'd
'finished' it.
Sadly in the field that is rarely possible. Programming, like other
jobs, would be great, if it wasn't for customers.
Mike
On 19/08/2017 22:01, Rich Morin wrote:
On Aug 19, 2017, at 13:30, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... Today I have ripped a lot of it out. ...
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
-- Ken Thompson
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/k/ken_thompson.html
In any case, congratulations and best wishes!
-r
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