Re: Clippy
"Sometimes you look at 100,000 lines of code, and feel it in your bones that it could be rewritten in 20,000"
I hear that a lot. But while writing the new code, more often than not, you will discover all the edge cases and special requirements the projects also needs to handle[*]. And in many cases, you will end up with the same amount of code, anyway. Except that it will be less reliable, because it is still missing about, uh, 25 years of bugfixing.
[*] Things like "didn't you know, every other year we have an ISO-somethingorother audit, and we need to run this very complicated reporting thingy that would us take weeks to do by hand". Or the always fun "Ok, we upgraded all the systems to use your new API, except of course that Doohikey2000 thing back there in the corner. Changing that would cost too much and cause a downtime of weeks because of the re-certification required"
Biting the hand that feeds IT
