Do you know one? By superhero, I mean a true developer who thinks beyond the system. The man who's code is brilliant in its simplicity, yet
complex enough for an ordinary guy to grasp.
I've met a few during my developer carrier. Long time ago I was working at some b2b company which had an inhouse developer team to
build and maintain software for their internal needs. We used Clarion as our main programming language. As a novice programmer I was assigned
to some dirty jobs: look for orphaned files in code repository, document the old code and hunt and fix small bugs. While doing this I found tons
of routines that took me a while to understand. Here is one example:
Code:
CHDIR(DIR1) ! change directory
CHDIR(DIR2) ! change directory one more time
OPEN(FILE)
...
At first I thought that the first change of directory was useless, but ...
Soon I'll explain what it was used for. Now I'm too lazy to continue. Do you know any superhero coder? Share your story.
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