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As much as bad code irritates me, I'm not quite so quick to blame the original maintainer - they may well have wanted, badly, to write something better, but bee
by commandlinefan 3y ago
As much as bad code irritates me, I'm not quite so quick to blame the original maintainer - they may well have wanted, badly, to write something better, but been put under artificial (and usually meaningless) time pressure that didn't allow it.
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- Smoosh 3y agoI maintain mainframe systems and very often I would like to restructure code to improve it, but the requirement is to make the most minimal change that achieves the fix or change required. Mostly because the code is 30 years of patches and minimal changes which is not well documented and is extremely fragile and not well understood.