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[mgd at santafe.edu]

Quoting Raymond Parks <rcparks at sandia.gov>:

> I'm just a cynic, but sometimes I think we spend more time 
> and effort writing code to be reusable and modifiable than if we just 
> rewrote it every time we needed to change it.

For example, it isn't feasible to rewrite a multithreaded web browser layout
engine every time there is some turnover in a company.  Or rewrite a compiler.
In many applications there often isn't a smart gal to ask that can say "clearly
the answer is X, just (re)do that!"   A design can co-evolve with the code and
both can be necessarily complex and/or delicate.

But I do agree that there are banal things in this world that need to get done,
and putting people in positions of authority over them tends to result in
obscure `frameworks', `methodologies', and other forms of pointless confusion
and obsfucation.

Marcus