Last week I wrote a 600 line Java class to handle some data import/mangling. Then I spend four days testing, adjusting, running things past stakeholders, figuri

Last week I wrote a 600 line Java class to handle some data import/mangling. Then I spend four days testing, adjusting, running things past stakeholders, figuring stuff out, adjusting some more, and once this code goes in and runs once, it's deleted. Yesterday (unrelated), I refactored a class. It's slightly longer, but better. I wrote a few lines of helper-methods, but most of the work was done by Eclipse and cutting-pasting blocks. In conclusion, the question is pointless.