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Re:How to become a dramatically better programmer by JamesBarney on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:57PM (#17289926)
The average piece of code is written once and read hundreds to thousands of times by people

I've seen this truism before but I never seen any actual data on this. Do you have any sources for this? My intuition says most code is Enterprise/small business code that is written once and read less than 10 times.

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Re:How to become a dramatically better programmer by hinkley on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:07AM (#17290638)
Every time someone steps through your function in the debugger, they read it.
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