Jack William Bell on Nostr: He would modify that huge mass of code minimally for each new program. The thing is? ...

He would modify that huge mass of code minimally for each new program. The thing is? He didn't remove the dead code and it had zero comments. He knew where everything was; he knew what parts of it he was using. We didn't.

So one day my supervisor comes to me and complains because I've taken longer to fix one of those programs than it took to write and I try to explain what I said above. My supervisor cuts me off and says, "Stop working on this. I'll fix it myself."

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