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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IDon't think you SHOULD stop yourself from this. Mostly if you FEEL for the big rewrite it's mostly correct to do. I insanely disagree with Joel Spolsky on this thing...

Though it's one of few places where I disagree with him ... ;)