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February 14, 2016

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to… — programming is terrible

““Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To avoid paying for a lot of code, we build reusable software.”

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