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What's the problem? Google's initial success can be attributed to the effectiveness of the PageRank algorithm, not the quality of the code that implemented it.
by parenthephobia 10y ago
What's the problem?
Google's initial success can be attributed to the effectiveness of the PageRank algorithm, not the quality of the code that implemented it. It doesn't matter if the first implementation (or even the current implementation) was a horrible mess of gotos in a single ten-thousand-line-long function, from the point-of-view of its users.
- alecbenzer 10y agoObviously if code works it doesn't matter what it looks like to users, but the whole point of code design is making code easier for programmers to work with and maintain so that it stays working for users. Writing and maintaining Google scale software without design principles would be a nightmare.