>>>Seen today on SlashDot: "The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the time"
>>I thought the saying was "It takes 20% of the time develop and 80% of the time to debug."
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>There are several layers of wisdom here. The percentages change each time you subclass, they are the project's properties.

True. I still believe in the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). I had a contract once the involved a VFP application to Email results. There were several dozen points in the application that did this. Each had its own method of doing the same thing with similar results. I consolidated them all to call a single routine. The task was completed in less time than management expected. I thought I did good. But the end result was that my contract (and money flow) ended. Good luck, Bad luck, who knows!