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“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C. Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To...
  • drspod@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I should have tried a bit harder to search, the original quote by Sartre is:

    “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”