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Questions for professional programmers who are often contracted out for various positions rather than being part of a company.

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In a legacy codebase, how do I quickly find out what is being used and what isn't?

I strongly recommend refactoring the existing source code (as opposed to a rewrite) using the patterns found in the book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code". The book details several mechanisms fo …
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