[TUHS] Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Dec 13 07:34:47 AEST 2022
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > I've always used the maxim "Write code as though the next person to
> > maintain it is an axe-wielding psychopath who knows where you live".
>
> My main job, for the 20 years until I retired, was to keep telling
> people that code that you wrote 6 months ago might as well have been
> written by someone else. Optimize for reading the code, not writing the
> code. It's read many.
I should clarify that on the odd occasion that I write obscure code it's
for efficiency, and I comment it well because *I* might be the one to
maintain it six months hence :-)
-- Dave
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