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Absolutely correct. If some programmers would take 15 minutes to read a seventh grade level book on good programming practices, and some managers would give their programmers a reasonable amount of time to do stuff right, innumerable man-hours would be saved.

Posted by Jim @ 03/14/2004 06:43 PM EST