That’s why it’s kind
of painful sometimes if you have somebody else working on the
project. They never code stuff exactly the way you like to see it
coded. I remember when we were working on BASIC, I’d go back and
recode other people’s sections of code, without making any dramatic
improvement. That bothers people when you go in and do that, but
sometimes you just feel like you have to do it. -- Bill Gates, Programmers at Work (1986), ed. S. Lammers
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That’s why it’s kind of painful sometimes if you have somebody else working on the project. They never code stuff exactly the way you like to see it coded. I remember when we were working on BASIC, I’d go back and recode other people’s sections of code, without making any dramatic improvement. That bothers people when you go in and do that, but sometimes you just feel like you have to do it. -- Bill Gates, Programmers at Work (1986), ed. S. Lammers