On 06/05/2007, at 2:13 PM, Ron Jeffries wrote:
> Bad code is bad code. If you write bad code, the data definition
> will be spread all over,

All the code, good or bad, deals with the information. If you
change the shape a bit, you have to change all the code that
deals with that bit, and you have to be able to find that code.
Traditional data access techniques (SQL, etc) make that
harder than it should be, so the data management folk *have*
to be a bit defensive. The tools vendors leave them no choice.

And *that* is what I want to change.

> It's not appropriate, seems to me, to blame Agile for what happens
> if you
> write bad code and then refactor it.

I didn't blame Agile. I don't support people who blame Agile. But
I acknowledge the reasons they exist. Is that so hard to understand?

Clifford Heath.