There’s a point that I made in the book but which I have had to point out to people a few times since then, and so I wanted to emphasize it a bit more. When you clean up code, you are always doing it in the service of the product. Refactoring is essentially an organizational process (not the definition of “organizational” meaning “having to do with a business” but the definition meaning “having to do with putting things in order”). That is, you’re putting in order so that you ...
