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Asking who wrote this shit is useless. However asking "what is this shit" is a perfectly valid thing to do. There are good developers producing crap due to co
by eps 5y ago
Asking who wrote this shit is useless.
However asking "what is this shit" is a perfectly valid thing to do.
There are good developers producing crap due to constraints.
There are also other developers producing crap because they can't produce anything else or just don't give a damn.
Being able to differentiate between the two is often helpful, hence the "what" question.
- mcv 5y agoWhen it's written by someone else, I start out assuming it's not shit at all, and I simply don't understand it yet. So I ask the person who wrote it (if available), and often they tell me it was a hack and please fix it.
- 0x445442 5y agoOften times the what is not known by anybody but the who and if you're lucky the who is still around to tell you. If they're not, quite often you screwed because that shit is the only place where the business rules are captured.