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> 6. You're coding for two audiences: The computer and the future programmer. Favor the latter, because the computer doesn't need help understanding your code.
by aaron695 8y ago
> 6. You're coding for two audiences: The computer and the future programmer. Favor the latter, because the computer doesn't need help understanding your code.
You'll never meet "the future programmer" so I don't see how this is true. They will never know you existed, you'll never know they existed. The tree may or may not have fallen in the forest.
Heck most of the stuff you work on never gets seen again.
And I've never seen someone punished for not coding for "the future programmer".
Do we want real truths?
- SAI_Peregrinus 8y agoFunny, I've often been the future programmer. And It's often my own code I'm looking at. Past me has been such an asshole...