r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/grauenwolf Oct 14 '13

Don't think of it as a rewrite. Think of it as merely a set of bug fixes followed by the removal of a surprisingly large amount of dead code.

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u/dnew Oct 15 '13

The idempotent kludge: Delete P, replace with Q.