I understand and agree completely, and I really appreciate the help. My goal
isn't so much to keep from re-writing code, but to have a pretty firm
foundation to stand on before I really begin. I mean, with c++ or c, all I
needed was the language, and that was pretty much it. I could do everything
from there. This seems a lot more like its a marriage of a ton of different
technologies :)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Maybe it's just me but I usually end up rewriting everything I write
> > at least twice. That's just a fact of life and I've found that I end
> > up with far better code that way than I do by trying to get it right
> > first time. It also tends to be quicker.
> [snip!]
> > In short, learn by doing. It's served me well.
>
> I made it even shorter, Stut. ;-P
>
> He's exactly right, Matty. It's a form of evolution called
> "versioning". No programmer gets everything perfect the first (or
> usually even second, third, eighth) time. Good, usable, lasting code
> will be written and rewritten very often. Look at almost any code
> that's been around and distributed (including the PHP project itself)
> and you'll notice that there are dozens of versions, because over the
> years new ideas have come about to make it more productive, more
> economical, and all-around better.
>
> --
> </Dan>
>
> Daniel P. Brown
> Senior Unix Geek
> <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?>
>
