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[–] thantik@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm guilty of this, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I have some short-term memory issues, and I cannot follow modern programming practices where there are 20 different files each with a separate part of a class within them 20 folders deep because folders were used as a naming convention for some GOD AWFUL fucking reason.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This fucker programs so well that they don't even need a linker. There's only one O that matters and that's Oprah, so we make sure that our projects only have a single .o in them as well!

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Any sufficiently useful system will be abused until it's ruined because of how complex it has to be

Gödel, more or less.

[–] kornel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Rust Evangelism Strike Force drops in:

Imagine living your life without maintaining header files.