5 Reasons I Love To Delete Code
Continue Reading August 5th, 2009 Jim Kiley
Over the last few weeks, during downtimes between meetings and so on, I have spent several hours deleting unused and duplicated code. By the time I was done I’d killed around 500 lines of code (out of a 20,000 line project). So you shrank the codebase by a couple percent. So what? Why would I ever bother doing that?
Well I’ll tell you, deleting code provides a number of wonderful benefits — some purely mental, and some very practical.
