1. Ten simple rules for working with other people's code.
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Pilgrim, Charlie, Kent, Paul, Hosseini, Kasra, and Chalstrey, Ed
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INTERNET forums ,SOFTWARE refactoring ,HUMAN-computer interaction ,UNIFIED modeling language - Abstract
In industry, there are some resources for working with legacy code [[8]] ("legacy code" essentially translates to "other people's code"). Often the main issue with running other people's code is using the correct version of the programming language and the code dependencies. Doing this ensures it will always be possible to move the code back to a previous state, even when mistakes are introduced, leaving you free to modify the code without fear of losing the original version of the code you inherited. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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