There's A Subtle Reason That Programmers Always Want To Throw Away The Code And Start Over.

There's A Subtle Reason That Programmers Always Want To Throw Away The Code And Start Over.

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There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code
and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And
here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason
that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental
law of programming:

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It's harder to read code than to write it.
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Joel Spolsky
"Things you Should Never Do, Part I"

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