Throwback to a gem of an article that starts with one of the hardest lines in computer literature:
> “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
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