Comment by XCabbage
4 hours ago
> Building a piece of software is or at least was orders of magnitudes more expensive than maintaining it
This feels ludicrously backwards to me, and also contrary to what I've always seen as established wisdom - that most programming is maintenance. (Type `most programming is maintenance` into Google to find page after page of people advancing this thesis.) I suspect we have different ideas of what constitutes "maintenance".
I like the good ol' "80% of the work in a software project happens before you ship. The other 80% is maintaining what you shipped."