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		jingw222 on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to ext... I don't see your point. Code that's more modular, pluggable is by definition easier to delete. That should not be a reason to prevent us writing easy to delete code.

kqr on July 22, 2020 [–]

It took me a while to get it too: someone else downthread summarised it neatly as a version of the Peter principle:

> all code tends to be refactored to its level of unrefactorability.

This was a neat way to look at it!

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