How important is software maintenance?

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re: How important is software maintenance?

martinig said:
What part of /your/ software development budget is devoted to
maintaining C programs?

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re: How important is software maintenance?

"martinig" <editor@methodsandtools.comwrote in message
news:1182170798.285462.160300@o61g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...It is not really meaningful in a research environment.
When I was a games programmer, none. It is too expensive to try to patch a
shrink-wrapped game.
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re: How important is software maintenance?

Malcolm McLean said:
All the more reason to spend the time writing it properly in the first
place.

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re: How important is software maintenance?

"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@see.sig.invalidwrote in message
news:U_qdnUygmeTCW-XbnZ2dnUVZ8v-dnZ2d@bt.com...Generally games are an unmaintainable mess. However in the nature of things
if a game seems to be OK, then it is OK. This constrasts with most software
where the radiation dose can look plausible, but is in fact either deadly or
too low to have a therapeutic effect, or the interest calcualtion can look
about right but in fact will kland you in court.

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re: How important is software maintenance?

Malcolm McLean said:
<cough>You say so, man.</cough>

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