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What the actual F**k???
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Hello, I'm here from all, could someone please explain the joke to me?
You can't edit code easily if it's on a piece of paper. It is also stupidity.
Oh. Part of my job is making complicated procedures and sometimes it helps to print them out and go over with a pen. Didn't realize that doesn't work for code. Now I know!
Likewise - it's only happened a few times in my life, but there have been moments in a 2k-line long SQL stored proc I inherited that I needed to print the thing off and user markers to try group code up and figure out what was happening (it was a monstrosity with no formatting or comments lol)
But yeah day to day, even year to year nobody is printing off their code to look at it - let alone only 20 lines of it lol