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Let's talk again when you're dealing with a codebase with >1000 classes, 5 different programmers of varying ability that you don't have direct control over, a build process that takes 5 minutes to complete as it works its way through a dozen different complex tasks with dependencies on just as many external tools and servers, and you need to do one of these simple "rename" factorings right now because a colleague made a spelling error in a widely used internal method that's about to be promoted to a part of a public API. I guarantee you'll start to question whether change/compile/fix is the right approach to these things...


In that case I'd just write a simple shell script :/

But thank god I don't work on large systems like that.




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