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I still tell people that my proudest day as a developer was when I deleted 70,000 lines of code that I'd made irrelevant, following a year of incremental refact
by fatbird 9y ago
I still tell people that my proudest day as a developer was when I deleted 70,000 lines of code that I'd made irrelevant, following a year of incremental refactoring that was consciously leading up to this point. It was, in my mind, an exquisite act of long-term maintenance programming. Older coders know what I mean and grin when I tell them about it.
- Joe-Z 9y agoI just came here from the "Yosemite bolt replacement"-thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15529497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15529497), where someone linekd the GP. The company I'm with at the moment has some horrible, horrible code, but there's nothing quit like the satisfaction you get from deleting a bunch of it because you just made it OBSOLETE. It's gotten to the point where my boss is joking that my favourite programming activity is deleting code. Cheers to us maintainers!