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		coribuci on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with b... This does not work for SW. No matter how long they tried quality programs are very very rare.

Kaiyou on April 17, 2020 [–]

And when they happen, developers decide they need to "further improve" it, destroying everything that was valuable about it in the first place.

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