Turning 50 this year, writing code for living, and could not agree more. I used to think all must be re-written and refactored. "Old crap must go". "I can do it better". But then one realizes the rewritten system is "crap" to someone else soon.
Learning existing system is harder than to create something seemingly equivalent that author understands well. For some time at least.
Learning existing system is harder than to create something seemingly equivalent that author understands well. For some time at least.