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Code can smell and be perfectly maintainable. Sometimes it's even more maintainable, because it's so unnecessarily replicated that the patterns become obvious.
by noduerme 5y ago
Code can smell and be perfectly maintainable. Sometimes it's even more maintainable, because it's so unnecessarily replicated that the patterns become obvious. You could even argue that the best precision code is the hardest to grok and maintain in the long run.
- mike_hock 5y agoA code smell is a heuristic to detect maintainability issues, so while a heuristic can fail, if it fails consistently, you're using a bad heuristic. Sounds like you're basing your heuristic on dogma rather than experience.