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Old May 25th, 2006, 12:21 AM   #23
Game_Ender
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Originally Posted by msk420
New guy sounds smart.... Welcome to the PFO forums...
I have been scared straight by looking at several awful C++/C applications. All you have to do is spend several plowing threw it before you want to just sit down and rewrite the whole thing. After all, what decent engineer doesn't stare at a system and think they can do it better . That said it really does take quite some time to do the whole the Document-Code-Test cycle, but at least it gives you a safety net. Most of the stuff I code has to be used by other people, so the more copious my documentation and testing the more effective it will be.
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