Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Truthfully? Never. Code can always be better: do more; gracefully handle more edge-cases; be easier/more-intuitive to use; run quicker; produce more meaningful errors; etc. What usually drives when I turn over code is the calendar.
And, while I frequently write with a "this is a first draft, I'll smooth it out later iterations," the opportunity to iterate rarely comes. Usually, someone comes along and says, "does it do 'X', yet? Ship it." Which suuuuuucks. You know what you've allowed out is hot garbage, even if it is serviceable (and better than nothing). You also know that, eventually, someone's going to come crying about ...and it will have been so long since you touched the code that "iterating" is more like "rewriting" ...frequently under the greater pressure of a tool that's become critical but needs to be pushed out to the junior guys.
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Truthfully? Never. Code can always be better: do more; gracefully handle more edge-cases; be easier/more-intuitive to use; run quicker; produce more meaningful errors; etc. What usually drives when I turn over code is the calendar.
And, while I frequently write with a "this is a first draft, I'll smooth it out later iterations," the opportunity to iterate rarely comes. Usually, someone comes along and says, "does it do 'X', yet? Ship it." Which suuuuuucks. You know what you've allowed out is hot garbage, even if it is serviceable (and better than nothing). You also know that, eventually, someone's going to come crying about ...and it will have been so long since you touched the code that "iterating" is more like "rewriting" ...frequently under the greater pressure of a tool that's become critical but needs to be pushed out to the junior guys.