Keeping a clean code base in large part means having the courage to throw stuff away. Open source is good at this, and I commend the rails team for doing this s

Keeping a clean code base in large part means having the courage to throw stuff away. Open source is good at this, and I commend the rails team for doing this so easily. It's a problem I encounter in the "professional" space often, people have a a personal attachment to code. Either because - they identify with it personally (their self worth) - they value the hours they put in, and feel deleting it would make all that time worthless/wasted Writing code is a journey through a specific problem domain. Once you've walked the path a couple of times, subsequent attempts become easier and smarter. I feel a healthy attitude is to see it that way. A lot of early code is just the byproduct of you discovering and exploring said problem.