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The Pragmatic Programmers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Importance of Reading Code

It is rare to find a history of computing class that would teach you any of the, you know, how the ideas came to be and who worked on what. So I would like to see the idea of teaching tied into this idea of learning how people did things in the past,. reading their code, and then discussing, okay, why did that happen? Give you a good example. Why does C++ have the pre and post increment operators? Plus plus and minus minus.

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