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by nox101 899 days ago
I have tons of examples of code where I did the simplest thing to solve the problem. Then later needed a change. I could refactor the entire thing to add this change or just hack in the change. Refactoring the entire thing takes more work than the hack so hack it is unless I forsee this is going to matter later. Usually it doesn't
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That’s just anecdote, just like mine. Even simple lack of experience or lack of skills can cause that (which were definitely in my case). Also, I’m quite sure that a terrific coder can create maintainable code faster than an average one bad code. That’s why I asked some statistical data about that.