Who wrote this programing saying? “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” [closed]

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I thought ChrisW’s research was right, and I tried to confirm it by doing the same thing. I found John Woods’ name in 1991 in this thread: Usage of comma operator

Bill Mitchell View profile More
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(John F. Woods) writes:

[…]
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code for readability.

Damn right!

So maybe John Woods?

Aug 22, 2014: Link is updated.

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