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An old very experienced co-worker once said, "code is written once but read a thousand times". Most of the old wizards I worked with hunted and pecked, looking
by wnolens 5y ago
An old very experienced co-worker once said, "code is written once but read a thousand times".
Most of the old wizards I worked with hunted and pecked, looking down constantly.
- usrbinbash 5y agoI had the opportunity to work with a guy who studied CS back in the day when punch cards were still used. Sadly he left into well deserved retirement a few years later. He typed slowly, not hunt&peck, but really slow compared to the other engineers. Didn't matter. The guy was a wizard. Ever seen someone implement radix sort in assembly or debugging a microservice using nothing but nc and echo? Without looking up ANYTHING either in a book or online? That kind of guy. Working with him, I sometimes felt like Mickey Mouse in that scene of "Fantasia: The Sorcerers Apprentice", when the Master came back, surveying the flood, and fixing everyting in seconds just by waving his hands imperiously :D