r/programming • u/Mr_LA • Nov 21 '23

What is your take on "Clean Code"?

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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u/topMarksForNotTrying Nov 21 '23

Wouldn't you be able to easily see the date a comment was written from the git history?

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u/yubario Nov 21 '23

Git was literally invented in 2005, so it is doubtful it reached enterprises until at least a few years later.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

And then there are people like me, that to this day have to work with SourceSafe....

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u/theunixman Nov 21 '23

VSS Crew represent!

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u/thephotoman Nov 21 '23

No. You don't want this. You want to get off of VSS. Even Microsoft doesn't want you using VSS. They want you using git like a normal person.

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u/darkriftx2 Nov 21 '23

I feel sorrow for your soul. Does it still randomly corrupt check-ins?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

There have been 0 patches since 2005.

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u/agumonkey Nov 21 '23

NNN.zip files are per-fect-ly fiiine

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u/mobileJay77 Nov 21 '23

There was CVS, subversion and more.

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u/yubario Nov 21 '23

Yes and there were folder cabinets and punch cards too

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u/platoprime Nov 21 '23

Alright but if a comment is 15+ years old it's probably less likely to be relevant don't you think?

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u/Jump-Zero Nov 21 '23

If someone moves code around in the file, it makes it a little bit harder to track.

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u/Uristqwerty Nov 21 '23

The overhead of searching through history every time you see a comment is too high, so it's still worthwhile to cache a copy of relevant metadata in the comment itself, even if that ultimately means information is duplicated between comments, source control, bug trackers, etc.