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Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

But then you write code in the real world and find out that you have to write some ass backwards code every other day because of deadlines, backwards compatibility or whatever, and suddenly you realize that despite your best efforts, code cannot always be self documenting.

Source: me.