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submitted 3 months ago by AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because "that's how."

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Huh... You know what that makes more sense than anything else I've come up with. I always just assumed it was lazy devs.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?

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