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thespin
on May 6, 2012
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A good developer has a natural, almost visceral av...
The hero is the negative coder. McIllroy said something to that effect. The hero is the simplifier.
zeekay
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Speaking of McIllroy, reminded of this relevant story:
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
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thespin
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Wasn't there also a book called "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley?
fsckin
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A similar nugget of wisdom:
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." -Ken Thompson
thespin
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I'll bet he was referring to code he wrote himself. It's slightly more complicated (pun intended) when it's someone else's code you are negating.
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