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Chesterton's Fence states that you shouldn't make a change until you understand something's current state. Removing code because it's dead is folly, if you don'
by OtherShrezzing 3y ago
Chesterton's Fence states that you shouldn't make a change until you understand something's current state. Removing code because it's dead is folly, if you don't understand 1) why it's there, and 2) why nobody else removed it yet.
- meiraleal 3y agoAs this is a postmortem, it was proven dead code. There is nothing in the text that mentions that they didn't know what the code did (which then wouldn't be dead code).