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   Steve Loughran (stevel@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 08:13:47 JST Steve Loughran

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   • Rob Pike

   @robpike there are only two outcomes of software
   1. -it dies, either forgotten or wistfully remembered
   2 -future maintainers curse your name, your design decisions and your implementation
   Really, death is the ultimate outcome of nearly all code (*). The only question is: how many people curse your name first?
   (*),vi and tex are probably immortal. Maybe excel too, sadly

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     Rob Pike (robpike@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 08:13:48 JST Rob Pike

     Also, today's good code is likely tomorrow's bad code.

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