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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by chii on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:13AM (#13606108)
The reality is that there are lots of spaghetti code bases, and better tooling is a godsend for those.

There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by wolfgke on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:03AM (#13606314)
> There is no situation where better tooling isn't better!

This is trivially a tautology. The non-trivial part is that what is better or worse depends a lot on the circumstances.

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