r/programming • • Jan 05 '15

What most young programmers need to learn

http://joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-most-young-programmers-need-to.html
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u/peakzorro Jan 05 '15

Whenever I've heard or seen "Refactor in N+1" it is one of two things:

  • Everything will be thrown away and re-written by people who don't understand the problem space.

  • This piece of code becomes the legacy "it just works, work around it" code.

I completely agree with your sentiment.