[TUHS] Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/12/22 4:34 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:

>> 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 :-)

Six months? Try ten years. :-)

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/