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Discussion on: How do you orient to a "new to you" code base?

 
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Jeremy Friesen

I love that you phrased this as "positive" and "negative" surprise. That's a very useful lens to bring to your job.

Regular expressions are a powerful and ancient magic. I always shudder when I see regular expressions that are not bombarded with unit tests. Because they can be challenging to write correctly; and once written challenging to explain as they are incantations of an alternate form.