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>But there are some that would want even the expert programmers to follow
>the practices that make it possible for so many others to program, and
>then uses excuses like "that someone else might have to maintain it".

What specific practices inhibit expert programmers from writing good
code that cause maintenance to be so much more difficult?

>If someone else has to maintain it, then we are back to depending on the
>lower common denominator.

This seems to be getting on "religious" grounds, but I would like to
add:

If you maintain somebody elses code, I (imho) think you have a tougher
job than the designer.  A maintainer has to learn to think like the
author in order to fix or enhance the original product.

If you disagree, you haven't dealt with much of what IBM distributes ;->
especially in terms of fixing.

 ... Mark
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