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1 point by evanrmurphy 4785 days ago | link | parent

> You're probably preaching to the choir here.

Good point. :)

> I have only violent agreement to add.

"violent agreement" conjures up a great image, like a SuperBowl riot in the city of the winning team. ;) </silliness>

> It isn't about small codebases vs large ones, but small teams vs large ones. If you were to gradually accumulate 150k lines of code over the next 5 years I think you would probably be ok - as long as it was just you and a couple of friends. We need constraints when we don't know who we work with, when we can't choose our collaborators.

That's a great point! Even though programmers change a lot over time, we still remain relatively backwards-compatible. And even when we do find code we previously wrote to be completely unusable, there is a sort of justice about it that doesn't exist when you're cursed by someone else's legacy code.

> Perhaps we need a programming correctness movement to parallel political correctness.

Not sure what you mean by this. Like to remove the assumption that purity is positive from mainstream programming thought?



1 point by akkartik 4785 days ago | link

Like to remove the assumption that purity is positive from mainstream programming thought?

Yep. Just <silliness>

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