You realize how terribly naive this is, right? This is out of line.
It's not, though maybe it seems that way early in your career I am no longer early in my career. I recently viewed code that is in production today that I wrote in 1966. Most of it had survived. And the hours I invested in writing it swamped any maintenance hours put into it after that.
... put giant whoppers of idiocy into their code on a regular basis. And finding these is where we spend all our time. Perhaps you do; my code comes out better than that. I attribute the difference to having read papers. I am not pretending.
It's not, though maybe it seems that way early in your career I am no longer early in my career. I recently viewed code that is in production today that I wrote in 1966. Most of it had survived. And the hours I invested in writing it swamped any maintenance hours put into it after that.
... put giant whoppers of idiocy into their code on a regular basis. And finding these is where we spend all our time. Perhaps you do; my code comes out better than that. I attribute the difference to having read papers. I am not pretending.