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Yeah, for all the garbage codebases that are difficult to maintain there's an entire graveyard of projects that got stuck in analysis paralysis and never got pa

• Tainnor 3y ago
  The problem is that when your codebase is garbage enough, after a couple of years you inevitably get stuck in analysis paralysis because nobody understands how to make changes to the system in a way that doesn't break everything.
• agentultra 3y ago
  I'm having too much fun imagining a project starting with a single `main.c` with nothing but `printf("Hello, world!\n");` back in 2010 with the project being stalled by endless enterprise architecture meetings.
  • bitwize 3y ago
    Maybe that's how the Brillant Paula Bean got written: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean