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But what does it mean to fully understand your own code? Everyone relies on millions of lines of code that they didn't write themselves.
by svisser 12y ago
But what does it mean to fully understand your own code? Everyone relies on millions of lines of code that they didn't write themselves.
- danbruc 12y agoFor me that really depends on what I am dealing with. Most of the time the library source code is good enough. Sometimes - I am a C# developer - I will have to have a look at the .NET runtime specification. Sometimes I will have to learn details of Windows. In some cases I will even look into Intel's reference manuals to understand what is happening. I would say I stop at the level where I don't expect the layer below to be relevant to what I am actually dealing with.