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Re:There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code by hinkley on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:52AM (#30116169)
The cost of the knowledge of that code and the techniques that created is spread in five to fifty other brains. That’s the hard part. You keep finding new copies of patterns you’re trying to remove.

In a couple of notable cases, that didn’t stop until I removed the last copy. My theory is that certain people were cutting and pasting code from one of the three surviving copies.

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