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On 8/26/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, but in my younger days I *could* completely rewrite a few thousand
> lines of someone else's spaghetti code faster than I could figure out
> what the original was doing. Then again, there were only two programming
> languages -- FORTRAN and assembler.:)


And guarantee they both produced all the same results, no doubt. You must be
a magician to successfully rewrite code without knowing what it does.

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