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title: "Code is Harder To Read than it is to Write"
tags: computer code permanent-notes programming
date: 2020-12-24 20:37:52
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# Code is Harder To Read than it is to Write

There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.

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### Tags
#computer #code #permanent-notes #programming