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by lacampbell 3436 days ago
Why? The code is still there even when a person leaves.
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enqk 3436 days ago
Code is really hard to work with without the theory that surrounds it, and is alive in the people who worked on it.

Peter Naur - Programming As Theory Building http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

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lacampbell 3435 days ago
Legacy shitcode is legacy shitcode. If it's owned by someone at least we can push for a sane interface, which is better than the abandoned communal messes I encounter in the real world.
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enqk 3429 days ago
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