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Excerpt: "McIlroy is attributed the quote "The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,"[31] where the meaning of negative code is taken
by peter_d_sherman 7y ago
Excerpt:
"McIlroy is attributed the quote
"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,"[31]
where the meaning of negative code is taken to be similar to the famous Apple developer team anecdote[32] (i.e., when a change in a program source makes the number of lines of code decrease ('negative' code), while its overall quality, readability or speed improves)."
- dragonwriter 7y agoThe negative code quote echoes the famous quote of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”