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by doubled112 1100 days ago
I'm positive there's some exaggeration for effect, but I've run into some Powershell scripts for that have grown into 1000+ lines and I'd guess roughly 2/3rds of them were in functions never called.

The call is removed, but the function remains. Fields in a form stay, unused and unpopulated, but the validation is disabled and left behind. Things like this.

No version control meant it was hard to go back, and people are afraid to break things.