IMO, the worst kind of accidental complexity in software is the unnecessary distribution, replication, or restructuring of state, both in space and time.
In other words, legacy code is fine. Legacy data is almost impossible. (Lots of legacy software has legacy data.)
samir, actually the xkcd top hat guy
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