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Re: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

Re: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

Posted Nov 27, 2008 11:05 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Re: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov by lipak
Parent article: An open letter to Evgeniy Polyakov

The best FOSS code is written to be read by other humans

Or, as Abelson and Sussman put it (in the preface to SICP): "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."


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