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   Simon Clubley to Dan Cross   
   Re: BASIC (was Re: extending MySQL on VM   
   29 Aug 25 18:51:23   
   
   From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-08-29, Dan Cross  wrote:   
   >   
   > Which again, comes back to what I think is _actually_ the   
   > interesting question: who do we write these programs for?   
   >   
      
   You write them for the people who come after you who have to   
   maintain and extend them. People who have a good understanding   
   of the language but may have your level of expertise/knowledge/skills.   
      
   You write them for the people who understand most of the algorithms   
   involved, but maybe not at the level you do.   
      
   You also write them for yourself a couple of years from now and who   
   is now looking at this code written a couple of years ago and is now   
   wondering which &*%&^% idiot wrote this code like this in the first   
   place :-)   
      
   Simon.   
      
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