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Posted Aug 7, 2008 21:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: 1000x by vmole
Parent article: Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: The Practice of Programming

By extension, if a programmer should implement something requiring 
algorithms more complex than can be explained in three lines of crude 
pseudocode, such that a random monkey pulled off the street can't 
understand them in five minutes, it's the fault of the person who 
implemented that algorithm.

(I get this all the time. I ignore it. The proposed replacement 
algorithms, if any are provided, are invariably brittle, slow, and don't 
work.)


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