I’m not sure the author knew what was happening. It seems like it worked like this and they left it at that.
back
1 comments
While this was the worst example he constantly wrote code like that. He could write code like that with few bugs faster than any other programmer I've ever worked with could write code. Management changed between loving and hating him, they knew what his code cost, but they also knew they were getting results fast when that mattered.
I knew a guy who naturally wrote code that baffled me all the time. Sometimes I wondered how the compiler managed to figure it out.
Fun thing: he was like that all the time - it felt like his language cortex was just wired differently.