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Re: Bad news from the module/environment front
- To: Doug Evans <devans@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Bad news from the module/environment front
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>
- Date: 30 Jun 1999 20:40:29 -0500
- Cc: jostobfe@calvados.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE, guile@cygnus.com
- References: <199906301624.JAA14594@canuck.cygnus.com.>
> Clever code is maintainable to the author (usually).
> Mental processes that went in to creating it are far more easily
> remembered than trying to grok the result from scratch.
> But in a group project (which Guile is and SCM isn't),
> that's irrelevant, no?
Yes, it's irrelevant. Ian Taylor always says he'll choose
maintainability over features any day.
However, in this case we're talking about introducing changes into a
piece of code by its original author, so I don't think it'll change
the situation much.