Chapter 1.1.2. Making It Easy to Maintain
If you look at a typical PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, or JSP application, you’ll see that nearly every page includes sections devoted to user presentations, database access, and flow control, and that all of this code is jumbled up together in one tangled mess.
For small applications, this works fine; but when things start to grow a bit, it gets pretty hard to maintain. When your boss asks you to make a simple change in one place, you can easily break things in code in another file; and if you aren’t careful, you might not discover the breakage until a week later when one of the VPs calls to tell you about how he made a fool of himself when he did a demo of your application for a client and everything fell ...
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