what a dolt (Score 1)

"Joel: It may be true for the software that Eick evaluated. It's not true for the software that I've written, because I tend to refactor and clean things up regularly. Half the time when I go into a function to fix a little bug, I figure out a cleaner way to rewrite the whole function, so over time it gets better and better." This is hopefully what will happen. It is not a skill or enlightened action. Its a freaking funtion of time if the code is still worked on. To say it in an intetrview only shows that this guy thinks more of his "image" and less about developing good theory. .02