Ha - amen to that! Gregg Reynolds writes: > On Aug 17, 2015 12:29 PM, "Gary Verhaegen" <gary.verhae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 17 August 2015 at 07:25, Jorge Branco <jorge.d.f.bra...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really >> >> matter who wrote it? > ... >> >> It may be just me and my bad memory, but I'm not sure I would have an >> easier time than anyone else if I had to go back and change code I >> have written more than a year ago. That's what I meant: if the code is >> old enough, even the original author will have to approach it with >> essentially fresh eyes. (But, again, maybe it's just me.) > > Pretty sure that's a law of physics. Programmer entropy is monotonic > increasing. 2nd law of code dynamics? > > Related: the quantity of clear, understandable code in the universe is > constant. Every time you make some bit of code better, somebody somewhere > makes some bit of code worse. And that's probably the same coder, in some > related bit of code. > > G
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