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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24

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On 2018-02-17, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think most of us started out writing impenetrable, commentless code. When
> you're doing a student project it's A) small, B) completed quickly enough
> that you usually don't forget how it's working C) keypunched/typed by you
> D) run once and thrown away.  In my experience that's the biggest step from
> student programming assignments to production work-the code may be complex
> and had to be understood by lots of people, perhaps years later.

And one of them might be you.

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From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Nostalgia
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