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Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders, bug-fixers, and people coming to the code later in its life to understand its construction and intentions and to change it comfortably and confidently.

— Richard P. Gabriel

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Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.”

reuse is properly a process issue, and individual organizations need to decide whether they believe in its long-term benefits.

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