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Wow do I want to look through that codebase.



Me too. I'd settle for some example code for now though.


Sure, we might go look at framework code sometimes. But it just looks like, well, code. There's usually nothing particularly famous-looking or even glamorous about it. Go look at the source code for Emacs or Rails or Python or Firefox, and it's just a big ball of code. In fact, often as not it's a big hairy ball, and the original author is focused on refactoring or even rewriting big sections of it.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/07/get-famous-by-not-programming.html

I wonder if he wrote that while worrying about this sort of thing.


Why not the Rails to JavaScript port by another Steve...

http://code.google.com/p/trimpath/wiki/TrimJunction




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