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Re:Software engineering is a learning process, working code ... by njhaveri on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:16PM (#25828833)
I get the general point of the article, but if I just lost the source code to the app I've worked on for years… It would take me a very, very long time to re-write everything. Sometimes, getting relatively straightforward code to actually work is hard and time consuming.
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Re:Software engineering is a learning process, working code ... by io_nathan on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:03AM (#25830771)
Indeed - but its not that side effects are something we do not want in programming: they are generally speaking the very essence during program execution ;)
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