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Quick Fixes Become Quicksand
“You don’t need to really understand that piece of code; it seems to work OK as is. Oh, but it just needs one small tweak. Just add one to the result, and it works. Go ahead and put that in; it’s probably fine.” |
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We’ve all been there. There’s a bug, and there’s time pressure. The quick fix seems to work—just add one or ignore that last entry in the list, and it works OK for now. But what happens next distinguishes good programmers from crude hackers.
The crude hacker leaves the code as is and quickly moves ...
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