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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. • Benjamin Franklin
As long as the data survives, you will have a chance to be able to use it—potentially long after the original application that wrote it is defunct.
(In an article in the April 1999 CACM, Robert Glass summarizes research that seems to indicate that, while code inspection is effective, conducting reviews in meetings is not [Gla99a].)
"Code a little, test a little" is a popular saying in the Smalltalk world,[6]
good project may well have more test code than production code.
The human brain will repeatedly foul this up—it's called the Stroop Effect [Str35].
People should see your name on a piece of code and expect it to be solid, well written, tested, and documented. A really professional job. Written by a real professional. A Pragmatic Programmer.
