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> Making "non-standard" changes [...] ressembling an long archeological expedition...

This. This is how I felt trying to understand legacy core code. I kind of like that though. The idea of being able to improve/rewrite a decrepit piece of code excite me. But you won't be productive, and getting a (somewhat) complete and precise understanding of what it does and doesn't, take a lot of extra time.



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