Re:Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)
by avmich on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:17PM
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You think Arthur doesn't look to his code back for those few years between rewritings?
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Re:Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)
by ksherlock on Thursday October 30, 2014 @07:31PM
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BC: Do you ever look at your own code and think, "What the hell was I doing here?"
AW: No, I guess I don't.
Of course, maybe he was answering the first 8 words.
Re:Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)
by theoh on Friday October 31, 2014 @09:29AM
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Logically, he could be answering the entire question truthfully, except that he doesn't look at old code at all.
He'a clearly somebody very focused on the current "working set", with his rewrites and one-page files. As opposed to the kind of programmer who curates a sprawling historic code base.
Re:Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)
by theoh on Friday October 31, 2014 @09:26AM
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Well, he does have to maintain it (apparently it needs a lot of bugfixes, according to discussion on Reddit) but, unlike the notorious perfection and immutability of the syntax of APL, he does have a habit of throwing old code away.