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From: Joe Pfeiffer
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 04:18

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 16 May 2018 18:21:41 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2018-05-16, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hell is being brought in as a contractor to take over the
>>> company's only product when its author has left to pursue
>>> his career elsewhere and proved to be a probably-underpaid
>>> engineer but a grossly-overpaid self-taught junior programmer
>>> who produced several pages of completely undocumented code
>>> with a mixture of structured programming and go-to-labels
>>> all intertwined with no indenting.
>>>
>>> BTDTWTTS.
>>
>>Another variation is being brought in to maintain code which
>>was written 10 years ago by someone who is now the department
>>head and who hasn't written code in years.  The real hell
>>happens when said department head finds out what you've done
>>to his precious spaghetti.
>
> Take what Gareth said, and add to the end of it "in APL".

You can delete everything between "maintain" and "APL".

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