>>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!
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>The customer's perception of the time we need to get the job done is usually the opposite. What they think would take months, we sometimes do in a day or two. What they think we should get done by tomorrow, takes weeks. They never know.
My last contract job was supposed to last 3-4 months. It lasted almost 19 years.