Vincent Gable’s Blog

May 31, 2008

Shared Code

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― Vincent Gable on May 31, 2008

I’m very picky this time about what I consider “shared” — I have to actually USE code in two different projects to consider it shared, not just think “Hmm, someday somebody may want to re-use this.” Because, in truth, most of the crap people put into shared code directories is either too specific to really be shared, OR (more commonly) it’s written in a general way but the particular app it was written for only tested some of the pathways, so it is essentially a bunch of buggy code that’s not actually being used and is waiting to trip you up.

Wil Shipley

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