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Eli Zaretskii |
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master 985cdf8984: ; * etc/DEVEL.HUMOR: Add a recent joke. |
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Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:16:24 -0500 (EST) |
branch: master
commit 985cdf8984a81653bb13d05e819d6f2bde096ecd
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
; * etc/DEVEL.HUMOR: Add a recent joke.
---
etc/DEVEL.HUMOR | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
index 6db69bb4b5..bd51845cb1 100644
--- a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
+++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR
@@ -188,3 +188,19 @@ wouldn't worry about it too much."
"Kind of late, but thanks for letting us know. I've just revoked your
write access to the repository for the obvious safety reasons,"
-- Bastien Guerry and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "I should have known better than to think I could be right and you
+wrong about some Emacs code I've just started looking at. Sorry about
+that."
+
+ "No problem. It's one of the many joys of working on a code base
+that's up to almost 40 years old: First you have to figure out what
+the (no doubt smart) programmer meant to achieve with the code, and
+then try to figure out whether it ever even did that, and then whether
+it's still working the same way, and then whether it's still relevant
+due to changes elsewhere, and then finally whether it can be improved
+without breaking odd edge cases on obscure systems you don't have
+access to. 🙃"
+ -- Ignacio Casso and Lars Ingebrigtsen
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