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Legacy code: what to do in regards to maintenance and moving forward? [duplicate]

I am currently working on an application with legacy code that was built using proof of concepts (POCs). These POCs became the finished production-ready code, there were no tests, and the classes have ...
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How to go about upgrading spaghetti code? Is it worth it? [duplicate]

I'm working on medium sized ASP.NET MVC 4 web app, that is about 2.5 years old. Around 25-30k lines of code. The project has never followed any of the good .NET design practices. It is a very tightly ...
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Does dealing with legacy code help one evolve as a programmer? [closed]

I'm a Java developer with a bit more than a year of experience which places me somewhere above a junior, but not among mid-level developers yet. Recently I was offered a long-term project which is ...
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What can I do to maintain respect for a poorly written codebase? [duplicate]

In my job I have to maintain a poorly written codebase which is both hard to understand, has tons of comments that are just plain wrong, has a bunch of weird decisionmaking going on in it and a whole ...
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Have you worked with poorly designed application? [closed]

I have been asked to work in a Java web application that is very very poorly designed. In the name of "making this easy", they have come up with their own "framework" to make things extremely ...
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