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by tychonoff 5477 days ago
I'm cleaning up someone else's code that didn't contain a single comment. When finished, the cost for doing this will exceed the original project (we're talking man-months here).

After that, I'll worry about correctness and efficiency.

In the mainframe days, we used to have code reviews that forced programmers to structure things properly, or they'd hear about it in the reviews.