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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 |