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Maybe your comment is off topic? We are talking about searching. You are talking about good vs not good developers and understanding code. Searching != understa
by antoineMoPa 5y ago
Maybe your comment is off topic? We are talking about searching. You are talking about good vs not good developers and understanding code. Searching != understanding.
- havkom 5y agoKnowing how to search in a large code base is a large part of this and could be included in what ”good at reading code” means.
- carapace 5y agoYou can't search without a recognizer and you can't recognize without some kind of understanding. As OP says, one of the skills/talents that differentiates good vs not good developers is the ability to rapidly "grok" enough of a large codebase to figure out "where to tap". ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/ )