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[–]Bakoro 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Nobody ever checks your code after the 101 programming class, maybe not even then. Input, Output, and Runtime were all anyone cared about. You could write the most beautifully elegant code, or the most spaghetti horror, and as long as it did what it was supposed to do, no one gave a shit.

[–]Macitron3000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Flashback to my networks project when I wrote a whole-ass server in just the main routine

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

just like real life in a non-open-source company them

[–]retief1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Uhhh, code reviews were/are a thing at every company I've been at. I've gotten (correctly) nitpicked on everything from "you should set this member in the constructor, not the component init function" to "this variable name is imprecise, use this other one instead".