Interesting to run a "blame" on this code, and see that almost every line has been touched by a different commit, and that 41 contributors collaborated on the f

Interesting to run a "blame" on this code, and see that almost every line has been touched by a different commit, and that 41 contributors collaborated on the file. It seems that the "do not attempt to simplify this code" is necessary rather because the cost of having so many people relearn what they already know is too large, and not because the code itself cannot be written in a simplified manner. It's a beautiful example of the difference between real-life constraints of a codebase developed by multiple collaborators, and the elegance that we strive for when coding alone. There is no "one size fits all" coding style in software engineering.