Years ago, I gave a talk about being locked in a vault and having to analyze a bunch of C++ code in a legal case. I used some Python.
One thing I didn't mention in that talk is that I also looked at a lot of "prior art" which mostly consisted of 1970s assembly code. That code, in contrast, was readable and understandable. It had flow charts. It was a small stack of paper when printed.
Anyways, rock on Voyager!
David Beazley /
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