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[andrewducker]

The only thing worse than working on old horrible code that's so kludgey that you want to kill the person who wrote it is...
working on old horrible kludgey code that you wrote yourself.

I'm fairly sure that this code was written to be fairly aesthetic originally, but was done before I had a couple of nifty ideas and simplified a lot of the system, and has now been encrusted by revisions because I was making whole rafts of changes that needed to be done quickly.

The result is a form that's going to be faster to rip out and replace than it will be to puzzle through and rekludge.

Ewww!!!!

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[markpasc.livejournal.com]

Some people say code doesn't rot on its own, but reading source is half like how you can't wade through the same river twice, because both the river and you have changed. (Only half in that code doesn't run like a river.)