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by Toenex 3686 days ago
15000 LOC in bash. You sick bastard.
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I am only guilty for the first 100 LOC, the rest is not my fault :)
We had a guy who wrote the other 14900 loc in a similar situation and made the whole thing really crappy. He used to say we cannot blame him because he inherited the crappy 100 loc in the first place.
After a few hundred new lines ones would think a rewrite might have been more appropriate.
There is no single point in time where a rewrite is "more appropriate" than adding this one line of code. At least not when you have a deadline.
Moot point. You still created patient zero. ;)