Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Adept
From : Dr. What
Date : Sat Feb 17 2024 08:32 am

-=> Adept wrote to Dr. What <=-

 Ad> Yeah, shiny new things. Though, also, it's generally more fun building
 Ad> something up yourself than figuring out what the heck the last twenty
 Ad> people were doing with this code that's supposedly self-commenting.

I've dealt with (and still deal with) some developers who have an attitude of
"I don't need to document it.  It's self-evident."  Ya, to you, who did the
research and wrote it.  But it's greek to someone else who didn't.

But changing someone else's code is 90% of what developers do.  It doesn't take
too long for you to write good code when you get a chance to do the other 10%
and write new stuff.  Because you may be the person maintaining it in 5 years.

There's nothing like the revelation that the horrible, uncommented, hard to
read, hard to understand code that you are complaining about was written by you
a few years ago.


.... Would you like to have some pizza with that sausage?
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