How to restrain one's self from the overwhelming urge to rewrite everything?

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Have you ever had the experience of going into a piece of code to make a seemingly simple change and then realizing that you\'ve just stepped into a wasteland tha

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Bad code is not something that can be avoided totally, but it can be isolated by proper abstraction. If it is indeed wasteland, which means, there is no landfills around, focusing design process is much more effective than trying to make people write perfect code.