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From: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stdin question, thanks
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Date: 25 Apr 89 19:26:09 GMT
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	"the program is around 3700 lines already and i didn't feel
	like mussin' around with it ..."

When you don't "feel like" changing a program correctly, but instead
choose to hack around it, it's time to freeze that program and go on to
something else.  Otherwise the program is facing a long period of
decay, and you'll find it takes more and more time to perform each
enhancement.

A lot of really bad code has had its origin in this sort of attitude.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (uunet!tektronix!orca!frip!andrew)      [UUCP]
                        (andrew%frip.wv.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]