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BC: 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
by ksherlock 12y ago
BC: 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.
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- 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.