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enqk on Jan 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making the move from Scala to Go

Code is really hard to work with without the theory that surrounds it, and is alive in the people who worked on it.

Peter Naur - Programming As Theory Building http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

lacampbell on Jan 25, 2017 [–]

Legacy shitcode is legacy shitcode. If it's owned by someone at least we can push for a sane interface, which is better than the abandoned communal messes I encounter in the real world.

enqk on Feb 1, 2017 | [–]

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