Post #922459
2026-04-03 00:16 UTC
Some things that I hold true about software engineering:
1. Systems can gain modified functionality by accretion (i.e. additional code is created), or through alteration (i.e. new code replaces old code).
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@chrisjrn@social.coop 2026-04-03 00:17
2. All things being equal, accreted code is more likely to be correct than modified code (because the code that existed beforehand might be depended upon in multiple unrelated places)