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Re:Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (2016) by teddyh on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @06:03PM (#23922105)
Analogous to Gresham’s law: “bad money drives out good” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law):

Good code is easy to replace, bad code is hard to replace. Therefore, all good code will, absent other forces, eventually be replaced by bad code.

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