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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Andreas Mertens26-Jul-22 12:57
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Bernhard Hiller28-Apr-22 20:39
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jschell8-May-22 9:08
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Andreas Mertens wrote:
Whatever happened to developers taking responsibility and making informed decisions?


Informed decision of course is based on understanding that the point of the company (lets use that as the stand in for whatever the organization might be) is not to 'write code'.

But rather to provide a solution that meets the needs of the company. And doing so in a way which enhances the actual goals of the company. Company goals can include things like costs (storage, maintenance, etc), performance, regulatory guidelines, customer needs and desires, higher management goals, marketing needs, etc.

So how does deleting it meets the company goals?

Now one can make the argument that cleaning it up increases some developers morale. Morale is important since it impacts retention. But could be some other developers that might have some concern, especially if the system is complex, that deleting this might cause problems. And without some other specific company goal being met it just is not worth that risk.
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