Assuming we take the text of "The Story of Mel" as fact, Mel evidently considered business requirements and customer needs a personal insult
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It bears repeating at this point that Mel was a terrible programmer who wrote aggressively obfuscated code which did the opposite of what the requirements said, declined to document what he did, then quithttps://twitter.com/christinelove/status/1055548723273453568 …
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Although, to be fair, refactoring code is twice as hard as writing it in the first place, and Mel had to refactor hyper-optimised, inscrutable hex written by Mel
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Don't get me wrong, it's totally fine to write insanely complex code without documentation, just not if you're handing it over to someone else
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Coding is a social activity and insane skills are not the whole job
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