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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] What languges would you like to learn?
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 14:34:17 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912251431430.89651@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191224163551.GA3839@mcvoy.com>

On Tue, 24 Dec 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:

> There is a lot to be said for programming in the most simple way 
> possible, we had a saying at my company "Write code so it is the most 
> readable. Because 6 months from now you'll not remember it, it will be 
> like reading someone else's code".

That's also my personal mantra when writing my own code, because six 
months from now I won't have a clue what was going through my head...

-- Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-25  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-23 23:27 cym224
2019-12-24  9:54 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 16:28 ` toby
2019-12-24 16:35   ` lm
2019-12-24 17:50     ` 
2019-12-24 18:04       ` lm
2019-12-25  3:34     ` dave [this message]
2019-12-25 16:02     ` cym224
2019-12-25 17:05     ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-24 20:27 ` dave
2019-12-25 17:31 ` rtomek
2019-12-25 19:13   ` athornton
2019-12-26  0:23     ` me
2019-12-26  1:54       ` wobblygong
2019-12-26  3:44         ` dave
2019-12-26  4:00           ` lm
2019-12-26  5:43             ` wobblygong
2019-12-26 11:49               ` tih
2019-12-26 15:33                 ` lm
2019-12-26 16:34                 ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 16:53                   ` lm
2019-12-27  3:00                 ` dave
2019-12-27  7:02                   ` thomas.paulsen
2019-12-26 17:57               ` bakul
2019-12-26 21:28                 ` davida
2019-12-26 21:37                   ` lm
2019-12-26 21:57                     ` sauer
2019-12-26 22:13                     ` 
2019-12-27  3:41                     ` bakul
2019-12-27  4:00                       ` lm
2019-12-27  4:28                         ` bakul
2019-12-26 22:16                   ` imp
2019-12-27  3:41                   ` bakul
2019-12-26 15:43         ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2019-12-27 17:46   ` cym224
2019-12-27 21:33     ` tih

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