On: The pyramid of code quality (Part II), the 3 different types of codes.

[swombat]

Hah, so what you're saying is the "code that needs to be refactored" is actually "code that needs to be thrown away"... :-)

[warfangle → swombat]

Sometimes, but not always! Often over-engineered code can simply be reorganized to something simpler and more intuitive (and oftentimes, more efficient). The same is usually not true of spaghetti code...