Legacy Code: A Beautiful Piece Of Crap

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

Programming Debugging Testing Backend

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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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