I _still_ do this today with new (to me) code bases! By doing this I really read the code, and really get to understand what the previous programmer was doing.

I _still_ do this today with new (to me) code bases! By doing this I really read the code, and really get to understand what the previous programmer was doing. Also something I took from Asimov's foundation series, code that doesn't look right, doesn't run right. I know, not really; compiler gives no fucks, but I'm not a compiler however, and GCC error messages (Clang too!) are still about as useful as a hot bikini wax is to a walrus. This was one of the features that made me really fall in love with Emacs back in the day! I could set it up to force my style requirements, then even yanked (pasted) code would be proper (mostly) and I couldn't fat finger my code to death. My only emacs complaint is lisp. I get it, I just don't like it. I'll take fortran 77 over lisp any day (not 66 or before, tho. I'm not that crazy). So, sorry mr(s) moar lisp.