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    Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

    Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Nov 2, 2009 · 59 min

    Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code.

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