Code Quality Debate
Discussions center on whether code is 'bad' or acceptable, the ubiquity of imperfect code in production, and debates over standards for good code versus functional code.
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Sounds like you've been surrounded with bad code all your life. This isn't true.
Code is never "good enough", code is only ever "less in need of fixing than other code."
I suggest caring less about code being "bad".
It's not uncommon for programmers - even for the great ones - to produce code that looks like it was written by non-programmers...
Most code in the world is crap code, so don't worry, putting it out there lets people make it better
"I don't know how people can still write coherent code at that point." - they don't and that is a problem
That doesn't mean their code is necessarily nice.
I think he meant that it is better not to worry about the code since it will stink no matter what you do...
It seems like nobody cares about the code quality, it just has to work until the conpany is acquired
People also produce really ugly code.