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The final column isn't LoC written that day; it's LoC in total. Friday was spent refactoring (what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters ma
by EliRivers 12y ago
The final column isn't LoC written that day; it's LoC in total. Friday was spent refactoring (what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool); taking the code that was already working, and making it smaller, lighter, better.
- frostmatthew 12y ago> what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool Calling it refactoring dates back to at least the early 90s[1], which I'm pretty sure predates "hipster hackers." If anyone "made it cool" it was probably Martin Fowler[2]. [1] http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~lysop/opdyke-thesis.pdf http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~lysop/opdyke-thesis.pdf [2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201485672 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201485672