Program code is primarily a medium for explaining ideas to other humans. (It does also have to run, but that’s secondary.)https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1096449079490547712 …
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Here's a quick way to quantify it. If Twitter's code doesn't run for a few days, the costs that Twitter has to pay might well be catastrophic to the company. If Twitter's code is hard to read for a new engineer, the costs to Twitter will be a few extra days' worth of work.
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"Technical debt," which largely means un-explainable code, has been fatal for many companies?
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