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Re:Sublime Text 3.0 by girvo on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @09:24PM (#15244278)
I print code reasonably regularly! Makes going through it with a highlighter and red pen to get a sense of what it does and what should be changed quite nice, and it's good to get away from a screen every now and then.

I mostly do it when I'm examining modules in a codebase I'm unfamiliar with.

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Re:Sublime Text 3.0 by JohnBooty on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:40PM (#15244625)
That's interesting to hear. (Since this is the internet, let me be clear: that's not sarcasm)

Theoretically I really like the idea of reviewing code on paper.

But typically, if I'm trying to familiarize myself with a codebase, we're talking dozens of files. Usually I'm going through three, four, five levels of code to see how a request is served up, and then my search will fan out sideways into even more files as I attempt to see what other processes in the application might affect the data I'm concerned with.

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