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Refactoring is bullshit
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Refactoring is just newspeak for recycling.
You don't want to recycle code. You want to use code. If you need to recycle it to be able to use it, the code wasn't worth it in the first place.
All the hoopla about refactoring is mostly good for one thing: to keep the incompetent idiots from doing harm. Let the idiots do the recycling, while the people who know what they are doing write code that doesn't need recycling to be useful.
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You don't want to recycle code. You want to use code. If you need to recycle it to be able to use it, the code wasn't worth it in the first place.
All the hoopla about refactoring is mostly good for one thing: to keep the incompetent idiots from doing harm. Let the idiots do the recycling, while the people who know what they are doing write code that doesn't need recycling to be useful.