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You think Arthur doesn't look to his code back for those few years between rewritings?
by avmich 12y ago
You think Arthur doesn't look to his code back for those few years between rewritings?
- ksherlock 12y agoBC: Do you ever look at your own code and think, "What the hell was I doing here?" AW: No, I guess I don't. Of course, maybe he was answering the first 8 words. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242 http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
- theoh 12y agoLogically, he could be answering the entire question truthfully, except that he doesn't look at old code at all. He'a clearly somebody very focused on the current "working set", with his rewrites and one-page files. As opposed to the kind of programmer who curates a sprawling historic code base.
- theoh 12y agoWell, he does have to maintain it (apparently it needs a lot of bugfixes, according to discussion on Reddit) but, unlike the notorious perfection and immutability of the syntax of APL, he does have a habit of throwing old code away.