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Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html


A pithier version I heard a long time ago:

> Your most important collaborator is you, 6 months ago, and they aren't returning any emails.

I like the Master Foo version, because it gives some hints as to how to do things right. A "narrative description of its architecture or internal data structures" is a great summary of what I find missing in so many codebases (and is also not an easy thing to produce).




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