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author | Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> | 2022-07-11 14:17:45 +0300 |
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committer | Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> | 2022-07-11 14:17:45 +0300 |
commit | d4875e1235375feb8d67bad8b1a76e64445f3b1a (patch) | |
tree | f011f6df1cc03dfb724fdffae09886f6589c3adb /etc/DEVEL.HUMOR | |
parent | 9c00d6c3f6f45755a20d093bbd821673fc7ac405 (diff) | |
parent | b283e36cf1902eeb6d532077e1f46270aa1224e1 (diff) | |
download | emacs-scratch/etags-regen.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'master' into scratch/etags-regenscratch/etags-regen
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diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR index 6db69bb4b58..bd51845cb11 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 |