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by nullpunkt 2932 days ago
The option of spending a lifetime reading the Windows code in order to 'know what your machine is running'? it's such an old argument but no one ever talks about how fucking cumbersome is to read code, even in work itself, moreso outside of work, unpaid.
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You know it's actually really important to be able to read code. Reading any code makes you a better developer, even old fortran which makes no sense, and has bad practices.