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“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

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Brian Foote
Brian Foote

Brian Foote, born on December 29, 1948, is a renowned figure in an unknown field. His life experiences and contributions are not widely documented, thus specific information is limited. more

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