Has anyone blogged about a software refactoring project being "heat loss"? Same thing really -- it comes out better, the same or worse but the underlying princ

Has anyone blogged about a software refactoring project being "heat loss"? Same thing really -- it comes out better, the same or worse but the underlying principles are identical. You could avoid the "heat loss" by just hacking on the old crufty code or redesign it into a fancy-smancy state of the art system. I would also bring up The Economic Calculation Problem and how it applies to large monolithic corporations equally as well but that's a discussion for another day.