0fd8a116_st_with_Ron_Jacobs___Channel_9__Transcript
[Speaker] Ron [Start Time] 0:04:28.1 [Transcript] 
Well that’s an interesting thought because it’s sort of a necessary aspect of maintaining the code in the long run. [Ian: Yes.] I can recall working on a product in silicon valley in the mid 90s, where a the original portions of this product were written under Windows 1.0, and they had never bothered to refactor anything and so the code by the time it got to 95-96 was absolutely hideous, I mean, it was almost un-maintainable, because for that very reason that they had never thought to maintain it or to refactor.
ARCast - The Evolution of Architecture with Martin Fowler | ARCast with Ron Jacobs | Channel 9
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