Take Pride in Your Legacy (Code)
Ну почалось, похоже теперь уже даже и программисты начинают нечто подозревать.
A developer joining a project, unless the project is starting a completely new application, will be working with dreaded “legacy code.” The process of becoming productive in a legacy codebase can be a nightmare. Legacy code has earned its reputation for being poorly structured, hard to work with, undocumented, and obscure. You'll see evidence in the code of the different programming styles of all the developers who ever worked on that legacy codebase.
A developer joining a project, unless the project is starting a completely new application, will be working with dreaded “legacy code.” The process of becoming productive in a legacy codebase can be a nightmare. Legacy code has earned its reputation for being poorly structured, hard to work with, undocumented, and obscure. You'll see evidence in the code of the different programming styles of all the developers who ever worked on that legacy codebase.