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by skydhash 955 days ago
As another poster has said, code you no longer touch is dead. Usually, software needs to be maintained and modifying a badly written code is a nightmare scenario. That means that requested features are piling up in the backlog and the resulting mess is growing slower and buggier overtime.
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> As another poster has said, code you no longer touch is dead

This is a poorly considered sentiment.