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> memory/resource scarcity is the mother of quality code My experience with Legacy code has been the exact opposite of this. I've seen some really well written
by drabiega 8y ago
> memory/resource scarcity is the mother of quality code
My experience with Legacy code has been the exact opposite of this. I've seen some really well written and documented legacy code but almost never in resource / performance sensitive areas.
People inevitably seem to accept trade-offs that sacrifice readability and maintainability for efficiency.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoWell I recall writing Fortan 77 for a billing system and we had nicely structured code (our team leader was a genius) but we did do some specific stuff eg reading in data in chunks the size of a disk sector.
- maxxxxx 8y agoAnd it was perfectly normal to do stuff like this.
- Pamar 8y agoCanonical example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel