copy on write

[Rick Johnson]

On Jan 13, 10:48 am, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2012-01-13, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a bit of a feeling
> that code should "do what it looks like" and be sort of understandable
> without exactly understanding everything.

Yeah there's a word for that; INTUITIVE, And I've been preaching its
virtues (sadly in vain it seems!) to these folks for some time now.