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I’ve also worked on codebases where the first developer misspelled a function’s name and everyone else just kept using it instead of fixing it. When I see stuff
by tonyarkles 8y ago
I’ve also worked on codebases where the first developer misspelled a function’s name and everyone else just kept using it instead of fixing it. When I see stuff like that, I admit that I judge them probably harsher than they deserve. Sloppy!
- crehn 8y agohttps://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080519-00/?p=22273 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080519-00/?p=...
- tonyarkles 8y agoAhhh Raymond Chen. For anyone who hasn't read his work before, it's an absolute goldmine of interesting quirks and "why things are the way they are". To the point of the article, I try really hard to make sure that things like this don't happen, ideally before a typo like that gets merged.