On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 02:35:33AM -0500, David Hutto wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Ravi Gehlot <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why mess with something that is already working? If you are trying to make > > it pretty then you are not solving a problem. You are creating one. > > > Define working. I've had programs 'work', but more experienced would > say it's flawed in some respect. Does it perform the immediate task? > > Now define pretty. Is it aesthetically pleasing to you, or to someone > else with less, or maybe more experience. > > By defining the two above, you then define whether it's a problem. To > you, or to them, or to the original designer? Beware of "more experienced" programmers. I recently talked to an ex-boss of mine who had a programmer flake out on him. One of his customers threatened to take this flaky code to another company and get their opinion about whether it was good code or not. My ex-boss explained that, of course, they'd shoot it down. Because that's what programmers do-- they complain about other programmers' code. I'd never heard that idea expressed aloud. But when I thought about it, I realized it was true. Hell, look at the content of this list. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
