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Here's what Rob Pike has to say about the best advice he got from his fellow developer Ken Thompson. Build the mental model of the software before touching code

Here's what Rob Pike has to say about the best advice he got from his fellow developer Ken Thompson. Build the mental model of the software before touching code: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206

bobwaycott 10y ago
> Build the mental model of the software before touching code This x1000. This goes for starting fresh, and coming back to existing code. Too many times I have seen horror that was the result of developers diving right in to coding without spending any time at all having a complete mental model of what they're doing.
- mlvljr 10y ago
  BUt you are so wrong! Noone does this like that! Look around! Kidding :)