Legacy Code: A Beautiful Piece Of Crap

Legacy code Technical debt Refactoring maintenance Code quality Software engineering Dung beetle Old code Production systems

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Legacy Code: A Beautiful Piece Of Crap

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The perfect metaphor for our relationship with legacy code! First, we acknowledge it feels abandoned and worthless after years of neglect. Then we realize we actually need it because the entire production system depends on it. We examine it closer, only to discover it's simultaneously a masterpiece of engineering and absolute garbage that nobody wants to refactor. The dung beetle whispering sweet nothings to literal crap is exactly how we justify maintaining that COBOL monstrosity from 1983 that somehow still processes all your financial transactions.

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