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		philbarr on Feb 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maintaining code quality when nobody cares My favourite quote from, "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers: "They're writing legacy code, man!"

jacquesm on Feb 13, 2018 [–]

I've - unfortunately - seen a case like that a couple of weeks ago. Very sad, moreso because they did not realize they were simply replaying the past. With all the best intentions of course.

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