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Wow, that's some wisdom right there :) +1.

Whole new meaning to "best code is the one that doesn't exist".

There's a talk by Greg Young regarding this topic called "The art of destroying software" [1]. It's a fairly interesting talk about designing your software with deletion in mind.

[1] https://vimeo.com/108441214

It may be a good message, but it's so hard to take it through such a condescending and off-putting way of delivering.

Ken Thompson: "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."

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