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by blowski 3539 days ago
It's still extremely relevant and useful. Once you've read it cover-to-cover, it remains useful as a reference. I would also recommend Michael Feathers "Working with Legacy Code".
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Personally, I found "Working with Legacy Code" much more insightful. Fowler's stuff is great in theory but hard to use in practice.