[kqr]

> The code will deteriorate in one way or another. You need to prepare to fix it since you can't avoid it.

Lehman's laws of software evolution 1 and 2:

"A system must be continually adapted or it becomes progressively less satisfactory. As a system evolves, its complexity increases unless work is done to maintain or reduce it."

[bmitc]

Thank you for introducing me to Lehman's laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...

https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/SE-Intro/lehma...

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/work/papers/feast1.pdf