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> Yep, notice there was no mention at all about why the original software was so ill-designed in the first place.

All software is ill designed in the first place. Even software I write to solve my own problems will usually do a poor job of solving that problem on the first iteration.

There is a reason old engineers say: "Plan to throw the first one away. You will anyway."



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