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		hrabago on June 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Could Bill Gates write code? It seems appropriate for its environment. If you write code like that today, it wouldn't be.

michaelfeathers on June 7, 2011 [–]

True. I think this is one of the saddest things about our history - the fact that hardware limitations thwarted good explanatory coding styles for so long.

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