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by he0001
1430 days ago
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> One person's beauty is another person's mess. This is so true. Also I believe that when the original author wrote the code he had a (hopefully) clear vision of the solution. He wrote it as tidy and fitting to the problem as he saw it. Then sometime later someone else comes in and is supposed to alter the code in a way which does not fit the original author’s idea of the problem. This creates a mismatch. The new guy can’t and won’t change the code too much, as it is too risky/much to do and therefore will only do as little as possible to make his change. Then some other comes along and do some more changes, which again isn’t enough etc etc, et voilà, you have a ball of mud that screams of a rewrite. |
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