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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by hateful on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#28382967)
I think more than any other group, programmers can understand the gut reaction of calling code that they don't understand "junk".
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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by delecti on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:00PM (#28383416)
Normally it means "poor quality" though. I think "junk DNA" is more analogous to "dead code". Not all code labeled "dead" is actually unreachable/unused.
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Re:The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ by im3w1l on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:23PM (#28384456)
Well we do have "comments" that are actually interpreted by tooling.
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