On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0100, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Arguably it would be faster to start again from scratch rather than try
> and learn the OO codebase... :-S

Doubt it, otherwise new coders coming into the project would never get 
started (into any project, for that matter).

I got access to the code for one of the products I used to support, and 
it was several million lines of code.  The engineering manager who 
granted me the access said they *normally* spend at least 6 solid months 
of examining and learning the code before they're allowed to commit 
changes.

And that's a minimum of 8 hours a day of doing code review...for 6 
months...

Jim

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