Opinion: This Code Is A Mess. Let's Start From Scratch Again

(from Gamasutra...)

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday-opinion piece, Nokia software engineer Martin Zielinski explains why you shouldn't throw away messy code so you can start from scratch, and what to do with that messy code.] This code is a mess. Let's start from scratch again … I have heard this sentence a lot of times. And I even said it myself more than once. It is pretty common that programmers want to have a clean and nice code ...


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