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> Giving up tests and versions, I ended up with a much better program.

This is one of those sentences that is clearly an opinion but stated as if it were some undeniable, incontrovertibly true statement of fact.

In your opinion, you have a better program - but give the code or repository to another dev or a group of devs and I'm sure you'll hear very different things...




The person who wrote both the original and new versions isn't qualified to say one is better than the other?


If they are the only user or developer, sure. Otherwise they are the least qualified to say it's better -- like how I'd be the least qualified to declare myself winner of a handsome contest.


I'm stealing this for all my future code reviews.




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