Re:Lisp Hackers: Peter Seibel
by gigamonkey on Sunday July 01, 2012 @10:04PM
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As I think I mentioned in the interview, I've found that if I do this, by the time I'm done with my rewrite, I actually understand the original code too. So if I had to, I could throw away my new (better?) code and still benefit from a better understanding of the original code.
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Funny, it's a thing I repressed myself doing, always wondering if static analysis (call graphs and such) wouldn't be better.
<sidenote> There should be a site with a substantial piece of code to discover and people would answer what were the main (3-5) steps they had to do to ~understand it and how long.