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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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Is It Better to Regurgitate Code Than to Rewrite Code?

Programming c was horrible because initially it was knrc and right or maybe ncc. There were all sorts of dumb crashes and then even later allsort of dumb things so the thing that's very easy to do and see have an uninitialized variable i just i put it on the stack, he says. "It is better for me to regurgitate code than it is for me to reflect on a hard problem" He adds: "I don't feel like enough people are looking around and saying wait we're in crazy town right now"

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