I was driving to work today listening to one of my favorite bands for the N-th time when it hit me: that song via which I discovered the band in the first place could well be talking about refactoring code! Here are the first few lines:
I will break you And I will remake you I will take my time To get you just right
While the rest of the song doesn't fit the description that snugly, with just a little imagination it still wonderfully describes that activity so familiar to programmers everywhere. Was my geek subconsciousness telling me that this song was cool?
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