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[maxm]

Richard Bow wrote:

 > Please explain what is meant by "refactor".

It means to clean up a codebase. Rewrite it until it follows best 
practice. Rewrite until it is beatiful, efficient and correct.

You should do it without changing functionality.

And a few links found on the amazing Google:

http://emw.inf.tu-dresden.de/de/pdai/Forschung/refactoring/refactoring_html/node26.html
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactor
http://ootips.org/refactoring.html
http://www.exciton.cs.rice.edu/comp410/books/refactoring.html


regards Max M