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				I always have this problem looking at my old code in one of my projects. I'm constantly rewriting everything.
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alyx17199y@theZorgEffect when your day job involves fixing bugs in it and you're not allowed to throw it out unless you can guarantee 100% backwards compatibility with existing data, some of us have to actually read legacy code. 
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