>Actually, that's mostly not true. I work on a 450,000 codebase, and I wrote almost none of it. I read far more Perl than I write, as with any language used in a project that isn't a throwaway.
Er, you've just proved it true. Other people wrote that code, hopefully to make it easier to maintain by those who come after them.
Like you say, code is read more often than it's written.
>Actually, that's mostly not true. I work on a 450,000 codebase, and I wrote almost none of it. I read far more Perl than I write, as with any language used in a project that isn't a throwaway.
Er, you've just proved it true. Other people wrote that code, hopefully to make it easier to maintain by those who come after them.
Like you say, code is read more often than it's written.