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by monsieurbanana 251 days ago
Medical industry, code that gets shipped has to be documented, even if it's not used. It doesn't mean we can't ship unused code, it just means it's generally a pretty bad idea to do it. Maybe the feature's requirement might change during implementation, or you wanted to do a minor version release but that dead code is for a feature that needs to go into a major version (because of regulations).

> I can’t think of any regulations in any country (and I know of a lot of them) that dictate how you do code changes

https://blog.johner-institute.com/regulatory-affairs/design-...

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That document doesn’t say that, as far as I can tell. If you’re using a compiled language, the dead code likely gets removed anyway, it is never shipped.