Discovery about the relationship between refactoring and a healthy life style
When I first accepted the assignment to write a tutorial about refactoring code, I was sure that refactoring was something that developers did when ?extreme' requirements hit their application. [...] After all, the focus of the assignment was migration to PowerBuilder 12. I perceived refactoring as a bitter pill (radical procedure) that a team had to swallow (perform) when code got too old to stay in its existing form and needed a lobotomy to survive.
PBDJ blog article, by Yakov Werde