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Discussion on: This is the feeling of working with legacy code.

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He goes on to say that code becomes "legacy" because it works, and no one wants to change something that works, and his goal anytime he's writing software is to make it so good that it'll one day become legacy.

That's a pretty cool way of seeing things. Of course, it wouldn't always work on a large scale, where the requirements can change much later on. But when working on something isolated, some specific functionality, I think it's a good mantra.