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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by wefarrell on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:23PM (#30900800)
You can get away with a lot on a single developer project and best practices aren’t in place solely to make code functional.

That application would likely fall apart if multiple developers of with diverse backgrounds had to maintain it and add new features.

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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by userbinator on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:38PM (#30900941)
I don't know what you mean exactly by "diverse backgrounds" and it doesn't matter in this case either, because there were definitely multiple people working on it (although the initial version was the work of one.) They effectively used a forum thread as source control, and just attached their modified versions to the posts.
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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by suifbwish on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:45PM (#30901024)
To be fair even with using best practices, code can still fall apart with multiple developers from diverse backgrounds.
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Re:A project with a single 11,000-line code file by Dudeman112 on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:39AM (#30904481)
The conclusion, of course, being that if you need multiple developers the code is less likely to fall apart if they have similar backgrounds ;)
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