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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.

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  • 12
    They'd find it in the Github Arctic Code Vault. They would be disgusted with my unit tests.
  • 11
    @homomorphicanus You guys have unit tests?
  • 10
    they will find a lot of different languages all saying 'Hello world'.

    They will be confused as hell...
  • 7
    "Look at those cave people... They actually wrote code manually back then..."
  • 1
    What is this ancient technology called "code"?
  • 2
    "What does this do and why does it work????"
  • 3
    @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.
  • 2
    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 ...
  • 4
    @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.
  • 1
    Human archaeologists or different species?
  • 1
    yeah absouletly
  • 6
    @PaperTrail well, you won't be disgusted by mine. Because I never wrote them. I'm a CTO.
  • 2
    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
  • 0
    Whatever it is, they will probably tell me in their prayers.
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