OK, I just like this analogy. As developer Elliot Loh puts it: “Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!”
The lesson? Not commenting your own code makes everyone suffer, you included.
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3 responses to “Why Software Development Is Like Time Travel”
Hahahaha, that’s quite true
“Why the hell did I write it that way?!”
Or quite possibly “Surely I didn’t write that?!”
As Glenn Frey from the Eagles said:
“If I knew I was going to be signing this song for the next 30 years I might have written it a bit better …”