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Don’t comment bad code—rewrite it.
--Brian W. Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style

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[–] ShrimpsIsBugs 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sure, but who explains to the stakeholders then that I spend days coding but without implementing one of the new features they requested

[–] noli 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hope you are good at explaining the benefits of rewriting bad code.

Also, shrimps IS bugs! Someone should get a tattoo of that.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hope you are good at explaining the benefits of rewriting bad code.

That's easy. If you rewrite the bad code now, that creates work and costs. If you leave it as is, it might go through for a few years and is somewhat likely to be someone else's problem by then. /s

Also, shrimps IS bugs! Someone should get a tattoo of that.

Absolutely!

[–] Lmaydev 1 points 2 years ago

"it was required for the new feature"