Martin,

(rearranging in posted order)

> > Funny NYPD wrote:
> > One possible reason may be: developing new feature is much easier than identifying the root-cause of a bug and knowing how to fix it.

 Martin replied:

> As an amateur programmer of "real" software, I can say that I have encountered this very often.

And as a professional programmer of real software, I've encountered it very often too!  

It's usually the case that developers would much rather write new stuff than debug existing - especially if they didn't write the latter themselves.  I think it's seen 
as the difference between designing a car and changing its oil.

But any decent system has much more time spent on maintaining, bug-fixing and enhancing it than was spent on writing it in the first place, so the industry 
requirement is for more good code-readers than Prima-Donna writers...

Cheers,



Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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