Good ways to overcomplicate your code and slow down development

[Josh Mellicker]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

>  resisting the impulse to "wipe it clean and start
> over from scratch." It mentioned typically there is a lot of smart
> work-arounds, bug fixes and overall business logic in legacy code, and
> if one is not careful, the baby will indeed be thrown out with the
> bathwater.

The theory is, that if those elements were well written, they can  
drop into the new, cleaner code structure without a lot of muss and  
fuss. The babies can be lifted out of the dirty bathwater in the  
rusty tub and placed in a nice, clean bathtub with fresh water, and  
you still have your babies, and they are happier.

:-)