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basis" by the American Heritage Dictionary.</p>
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<p>Beman Dawes comments: Failure to supply contemporaneous rationale for
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design decisions is a major defect in many software projects. Lack of accurate
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-rationale causes issues to revisited endlessly, causes maintenance bugs when a
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+rationale causes issues to be revisited endlessly, causes maintenance bugs when a
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maintainer changes something without realizing it was done a certain way for
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some purpose, and shortens the useful lifetime of software.</p>
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<p>Rationale is fairly easy to provide at the time decisions are made, but very
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@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ suggestion. Major contributions are usually acknowledged in the
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documentation, while minor fixes are often mentioned in comments within the code
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itself.</p>
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-<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->09 January, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38582" --></p>
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+<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->20 February, 2003<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="40398" --></p>
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</body>
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Beman Dawes