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Six Steps for Understanding a Large, Legacy Codebase
- gregjor 6y agoI look at the database first, then the important data structures in the code. The data tells me more than studying the code. > Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious. -- Fred Brooks > I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. -- Linus Torvalds