Re: Programming Mantras

[simon.proctor]

• Am I going to be able to understand this in 6 months
• Am I going to be able to read this in 6 months
• Can I reuse anything I have just done

Short and sweet.

[vagnerr]

Surely you are missing the ever important

• Will the poor sod who takes over when I quit be able to understand it?
Or am I stepping on the toes of job security here :-)

--- If it doesn't fit use a bigger hammer

[simon.proctor]

haha, close but how about:

Will I be able to turn this into 1,000,000 lines of undocumented spaghetti code in my notice period?

One for the - you're only a programmer so no pay rise, pay reviews :).