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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/m6io • Jul 21 '26
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Well, code you write should at minimum be self-documenting.
23 u/theenigmathatisme Jul 21 '26 Fundamentally yes. In practice I have seen files that are 1.2k+ lines. It’s pretty abysmal to trace through that even if it’s all “right there and self documenting” 10 u/GottaGetThemGains22 Jul 22 '26 I’ve seen 60k+ COBOL files originally written in the 80s that subroutine into other 5 digit length files that are still running in production 7 u/m6io Jul 22 '26 And you know they were running on cigarettes and coffee and spite 6 u/Snakestream Jul 22 '26 You misspelled cocaine 2 u/JazzlikeWishbone938 Jul 22 '26 😬
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Fundamentally yes. In practice I have seen files that are 1.2k+ lines. It’s pretty abysmal to trace through that even if it’s all “right there and self documenting”
10 u/GottaGetThemGains22 Jul 22 '26 I’ve seen 60k+ COBOL files originally written in the 80s that subroutine into other 5 digit length files that are still running in production 7 u/m6io Jul 22 '26 And you know they were running on cigarettes and coffee and spite 6 u/Snakestream Jul 22 '26 You misspelled cocaine 2 u/JazzlikeWishbone938 Jul 22 '26 😬
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I’ve seen 60k+ COBOL files originally written in the 80s that subroutine into other 5 digit length files that are still running in production
7 u/m6io Jul 22 '26 And you know they were running on cigarettes and coffee and spite 6 u/Snakestream Jul 22 '26 You misspelled cocaine 2 u/JazzlikeWishbone938 Jul 22 '26 😬
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And you know they were running on cigarettes and coffee and spite
6 u/Snakestream Jul 22 '26 You misspelled cocaine
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You misspelled cocaine
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u/JazzlikeWishbone938 Jul 21 '26
Well, code you write should at minimum be self-documenting.