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by swalsh 3562 days ago
Something I've noticed, in bad code if you need to learn something, or change something... Simply "searching" the code isn't enough. Maybe there are multiple places that do a similar thing, maybe the names are weird, maybe it's so condensed as to be unreadable. Whatever the cause... The only way to find the piece doing the thing is to step though it.

Good code, you can search it... even if the majority of it is unfamiliar. Find a piece, and say "oh this is probably the spot" with out ever executing it.