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Source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text.
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Is the following method to compare source codes or work effort reliable?
The basic idea of this method is to count the number of methods instead of the code-lines.
Well here's your problem.
The reason LOC counting doesn't work is because a programmer can spend day …
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How to deal with large source codes?
For example, a simple "if" can occupy a whole screen (more or less 30 to 40 lines). I do not need to mess with it anymore, but it's not a function, it's not a class, just a part of the code that ha …
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How to store legacy source texts snapshots with FTS (full text search) all through their his...
The question is all the prior snapshots.
git grep pattern $(git rev-list d70e..HEAD)
Introduction to git grep
runs on Windows
Git for Windows
If that's not enough I humbly suggest you ne …
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How useful is line-by-line code re-use?
Code reuse and Lines of Code (LoC) counting are different obsessions.
Both are things to be sensitive to. Neither should be the primary concern.
Good names, readability, semantics, organization, ab …
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Fighting the half-life of code
Choose a popular programming language
The more people that know the language the better the odds someone who wishes to replicate your work will know the language.
By popular I mean new graduates in yo …
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If taking over code of a third party, what are the delivarables?
You're being offered a release with source. What you're asking for is the source code repository.
No modern developer would want to be without the history in the repository.
The question is, what …
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What are the benefits of multi-file programming?
There are a lot of technical reasons behind using multiple files when writing large complex systems. All of them are meaningless in the face of the best reason to use multiple files:
Readability.
Wh …
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Overhead of using big singleton with all files includes
Both of these are a huge violation of the interface segregation principle. It also makes your dependencies implicit rather then explicit. This comes at a cost you wont notice until you try to make cha …
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
This is not a refactoring. With no access to source, no tests, and nothing indicating the point of the refactor, what you’re really doing is called reverse engineering.
Rather than worry about how it …
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