Programmers don’t delete, they #comment

A little bit of background first. I’m an Android Developer working in an IT company in Nepal.

We were working on a project with some tight deadline and so we had to up our game to finish the project on time. The project was supposed to consist of 4 main modules, in the initial requirements and we were working very hard, literally, no Facebook, no Youtube in spare time. In fact, there was no spare time and after 10 days or so, we finally came up with a prototype and showed it to the client. By now you have already guessed what happened.

The client didn’t want 2 of the main modules instead they already had another company made a separate app for those 2 modules and asked us to replace those 2 modules with other modules. They also said that there might be a possibility in the future that we might need those 2 modules too, so, um, you know.

So it is at this time that strike me, Programmers don’t delete, they /*comment*/ to be precise. There is always the fear that we might need this code in the near future and either we are too lazy to write it again or we are too lazy to search it over Stackoverflow and incidents like this help those fear to prevail on our mind and the project looking messed up and lots of boilerplate code are just the perks. And to be honest, as a programmer we can’t help it.