because it doesn't need to be changed because it just works
This sentence alone shows why there is ugly code everywhere. Because many people think "hey it works, time to go home" the nice code is never written. The following extra 30% development time to make it really good structured, readable and commented just do not happen. Which leads to a vicious circle: 1) The beautify does not happen 2) The time is not recorded 3) The time is not expected to be necessary or payed for...
It would require another ground breaking revolutionary boom in programming, like "beautiful coding" or sth.
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because it doesn't need to be changed because it just works
This sentence alone shows why there is ugly code everywhere. Because many people think "hey it works, time to go home" the nice code is never written. The following extra 30% development time to make it really good structured, readable and commented just do not happen. Which leads to a vicious circle: 1) The beautify does not happen 2) The time is not recorded 3) The time is not expected to be necessary or payed for ...
It would require another ground breaking revolutionary boom in programming, like "beautiful coding" or sth.
Which will not boom, since we are all lazy a...