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Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> writes:
> Maintaining means usually fixing bugs

I don't believe that.  There are always improvements to make that aren't
bug fixes.  Think of Ada-2012.  How much code do you personally use
(other than embedded) that hasn't been improved in the past 15 years?