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Been working on some legacy code that is so convoluted, you sometimes can't even tell if it's correct, without starting to rewrite. Once you grok what it's doing, there's almost always a simpler & more direct way. This in turn usually makes it faster, AND sometimes more correct. It's pretty gratifying, though there are many SMH moments.


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