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What is "production-level code"?

Asked 2010-10-11T16:20:35.910
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This isn't quite a technical question, but I've noticed a lot of job postings that ask for experience writing production level code. I've been assuming that this is just opposed to, for instance, testing code. What, specifically, does the term "production-level code" mean?

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It means that the company recently hired someone who wrote garbage and that they're trying to keep it from happening again.

answered 2010-10-11T16:49:36.087
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I've known a couple of people that never got any substantial code into production releases of anything. Building lots of prototypes is neat and fun and all, but until you release and support code, it's all a theoretical exercise.

It may be that people who placed those postings don't want that kind of 'experience'.

answered 2010-10-11T16:59:21.240

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