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A comment on Wuffs’ PNG image decoder. Parent comment

Re:Wuffs’ PNG image decoder by amelius on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:10PM (#26716774)
But the C++ spec has become quite unwieldy, so I can understand the desire to start a totally new language.
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Re:Wuffs’ PNG image decoder by edflsafoiewq on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:26PM (#26716959)
The previous post on the blog has an observation that applies to languages as well

> Software has a Peter Principle. If a piece of code is comprehensible, someone will extend it, so they can apply it to their own problem. If it’s incomprehensible, they’ll write their own code instead. Code tends to be extended to its level of incomprehensibility.

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