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I'm guessing most of the senior programmers you've interacted with are maintaining established software with low churn and high availability requirements.

I hear comment love very frequently from enterprise engineers working with 10+ year old Java codebases, but very infrequently from hackers working with young code bases in more concise languages (complex algorithms aside).



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