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Calin Negru25-Feb-22 9:41
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jschell17-Feb-22 11:21
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CalinNegru wrote:
Looking at a large project


Depends on what "large" actually means...

In the real world companies end up with software that was created by many people over time.
As with everything else that humans are involved in quality tends towards the average. That includes design which impacts what you refer to as 'structure'.

Programmers also like to think that they know for certain that the best way to do something is the way they know. Which is completely subjective.

So they create new 'better' solutions willy-nilly and hack them into existing code bases because of that. Then they leave the company and someone else starts doing it. Overtime this leads to significant organizational problems.

Even in the best systems there are real world business requirements that only come up long after the original design and for which the original design did not account. And the company is not willing to pay to refactor the entire code base when this happens. Even worse if it wasn't well designed. Or with 'better' ways on top of it.

And developers seldom consider the long term impact on maintenance when they make radical decisions to go in a different direction on a code base. It is known (multiple studies) that maintenance costs are always 2 to 10 times higher than the original cost to develop the product. And 100 times higher is probably reasonable for some.

Might note that although I point out developers in the above I have never seen a company that was actually willing to recognize the maintenance costs much less put an emphasis on mitigating for that.
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