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

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This is so true tho

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day 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?