If archaeologists from 1000 years in the future find a fossilized copy of your code? What would they think about it?

Regex would definitely classify as alien manufacture.

They'd find it in the Github Arctic Code Vault. They would be disgusted with my unit tests.

@homomorphicanus You guys have unit tests?

they will find a lot of different languages all saying 'Hello world'.

They will be confused as hell...

"Look at those cave people... They actually wrote code manually back then..."

What is this ancient technology called "code"?

"What does this do and why does it work????"

@homomorphicanus every sane person who knows how to write code is disgusted by the very idea of unit tests. No, uncle bob is not a sane person. If I were to write a random UML diagram generator, the architecture generated by it will be better than anything he ever designed.

I hope they would have little bit of reflective-emotional moment looking on all those //TODOs that I was planning to implement, yet never had a time to do so ...

@kiki > "every sane person who knows how to write code is disgusted by the very idea of unit tests"

Let me correct that statement, every sane developer is disgusted by *other developers" unit tests.

Mine are always textbook perfect.

Want to see some? Sure...um...<opens Visual Studio> ...no not that one....how about...eww...no....how about....ahhh...got one.....wtf!?...was I drinking turpentine when I wrote that?!

When I find one of my perfect tests...I'll post it.

Human archaeologists or different species?

yeah absouletly

@PaperTrail well, you won't be disgusted by mine. Because I never wrote them. I'm a CTO.

I sometimes add this to my comment header:

"What I am about to do has not been approved by the Vatican"

That should throw them a curveball

Whatever it is, they will probably tell me in their prayers.

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