Op 24-2-2019 09:58, Eric Stevens wrote:
> It's more than 25 years since I wrote C code but I will always
> remember the first time I encountered the problem I have hinted at. I
> had written 5 lines of code but then over the next few days after
> succeeding revisions I had reduced the 5 lines to only one which did
> the same thing as the original 5. I came back to it a few months later
> and found that I was damned if I could quite work out what that one
> line of code was supposed to be doing. I never did manage to get back
> to the original five lines.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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