Code is a Liability
Code is a liability
Posted by 11/21/2005
This is an interesting article Code is not an Asset and the comments are good as well. I was thinking in those terms but not able to verbalize it. Software is often a service not a product (but sometimes a product). And the exercise in pedantry that Java has become is actually harmful - and the mass of code it produces serves as proof. "More code, More bugs" is something I've said before, but it might be more accurate to say. "More code, less adaptability" because that is when code becomes a liability. When you have to develop 2 year plans to migrate databases - or your still running Java 1.3 because the nightmare of regression testing to upgrade to 1.4 - then you've got a serious problem. A design flaw. If software has become an immovable mass - then you've got a serious problem.
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