All Programmers Are Code Narcissists
Posted in Programming, Software on Jun 7th, 2009 No Comments »
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I finally discovered the truth about why developers rather rewrite a 1MLOC project from scratch than trying to understand a fellow programmer’s code:
We’re all code narcissists!
And the reason for that can easily deducted in a tiny logical chain:
(The best code is easy to understand) ^ (I can understand my own code the easiest, duh!)
=> (My [...]
