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I believe you can restate this as: With a sufficient number of users, all bugs will eventually become features. I spent many years maintaining an old system wi
by lucas_membrane 7y ago
I believe you can restate this as: With a sufficient number of users, all bugs will eventually become features. I spent many years maintaining an old system with spaghetti-like structure and thousands of users. When attempting to design fixes to known problems I would often dig up odd code that looked like it could not possibly be correct. When I pointed out the odd behaviors that resulted from the suspect code to managers or other programmers somewhat familiar with the system, they just about always advised to never change anything just because it looked bad, no matter how bad. The question, "Bug or feature?" is meaningless in such a situation.