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Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by n_ary on Friday June 28, 2024 @06:00AM (#40819164)
Let me guess, it was very well funded and there were no fake deadlines and cross-team dependencies, am I correct or am I very correct?
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by contingencies on Friday June 28, 2024 @04:42PM (#40825065)
Cancel the rocket launch people, we have a semantic incongruity! Correct is a binary state.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by kridsdale3 on Friday June 28, 2024 @07:53PM (#40826638)
Unless you're working with Quantum Correctness.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by nurettin on Saturday June 29, 2024 @01:20AM (#40828050)
If you allow for composable statements, the whole can be half correct.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by Hasu on Saturday June 29, 2024 @10:55AM (#40831063)
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by f1shy on Saturday June 29, 2024 @03:29AM (#40828509)
I bet you are very correct
Re:Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? by structural on Sunday June 30, 2024 @01:54AM (#40835377)
Not only was the funding effectively unlimited, but it was developed over 20+ years (so the whole program was designed to the standard that "the next person touching this code will never have touched this system before, and the last person who touched it isn't available to ask, and it still must be correct in the face of such change."

Nothing moved very quickly, sometimes a change request took a year from initial writeup to implementation and close-out. It wasn't creative, but it worked. Very well.