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Importance of Editing and Proofreading

Justin Lam on January 15, 2019

I've experienced this time after time again, many developers don't proofread their work. I don't know why some developers have this urgency to su...
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Lester Romano

This is why code review is a must on a large codebase.

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Justin Lam

I think what I'm trying to convey is to do some due diligence at the point before a code review is submitted.

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Lester Romano

Yes I understand. Another thing that I hate (other than not having a due diligence to review his code) is not having the diligence to request for a review which really sucks.

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Michiel Hendriks

Somebody else has to do that for me. I can read something I wrote 20 times and not see an obvious error. My brain (thinks it) knows what's there and will ignore a lot what my eyes are telling.
This is why you do (code) reviews of other people's work.

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Justin Lam

I understand. It's not able being completely perfect, but one should take time to at least do 1 or 2 passes before submission.

I know for book writing, they are dedicated editors because the author is guaranteed to make mistakes. Perhaps this might be something we may need in teams, a dedicated "editor" for our source code.