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Every time someone claims that "perpetual refactoring" for quality is not a viable software development strategy in a Real Business(tm), I think about this one customer I have, which quietly does exactly this, and has been profitably doing it for years, and now has some of the most maintainable and reliable code I've ever seen at any company or frankly any software project
@joepie91 oh yeah rewriting your code base from scratch every time is certainly a viable business idea
@eloy "Perpetual refactoring" is the opposite of that
@joepie91 yes I was sarcastic :P
@joepie91 It reminded me of Joel Spolsky's Netscape blogpost
@eloy Which one?
And we're talking a fairly significantly-sized company here, this is absolutely not a sole developer or even a small team