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Re:Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how ... by finnh on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:25PM (#14472219)
Wow, I don't agree with that "law" at all. A couple times in my career I've worked for 5+ years in a codebase that I started, and it's always easier to read my old code than to read someone else's. Like, waay easier (unless the other person's code is super duper clean).
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Re:Free software is suffering because coders don’t know how ... by CM30 on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:22PM (#14473004)
Those two views aren't necessarily opposites. Your old code can be hard to read, and other people's code can simply be even more difficult to understand than that.
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