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Aug 2017

Changing With the Times

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Melody got tapped to do a code review on a pull-request from a veteran team-member. It was… an interesting PR, in that very, very little changed. The code was terrible before anyone touched it- for example, the C-file started with 355 lines of variable declarations inside of the main method.

It was, in fact, down around line 354 where Melody noticed the change.