>If you do, then I find it incredible that you have never discovered some complicated code that serves no real purpose Hell, I've written some of that. Very co

>If you do, then I find it incredible that you have never discovered some complicated code that serves no real purpose Hell, I've written some of that. Very complicated, usually awful code, but it did at one point have a purpose. If somebody wrote something complicated, just for amusement, then that is its purpose. That's a fence that can be rebuilt or thrown away, but you'd better be sure that nothing else references it or otherwise depends on it doing its quirky baroque thing.