“ There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.
Joel Spolsky, Things you Should Never Do
zen bones...
Steve Mathew's Blog
OK, so why the zen bones thing?
About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.
Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.
Is the blog about Zen? Nope.
OK, so why the zen bones thing?
About 20 years ago I stumbled upon a book called "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones". Being vegetarian - the "flesh" bit didn't grab me, but the short pithy Zen stories inside it, did.
Ever since then my web nick has been zenbones, my Hotmail, my Gmail address, you name it. It's kinda stuck.
Is the blog about Zen? Nope.
