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Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown
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> What catastrophe? 

By that I meant the destruction of economy based on code mess.

Of course you are right that "15000 lines of undocumented code" does not 
mean that the author himself won't understand it anymore.

I know I would not understand it anymore after 13 years if that was my 
code. But perhaps Mr. Ferguson is an underrated genius with 
extraordinary mental capacity

Based on the fact that he disregarded his own recommendation about 
isolation and got caught with a cheating woman, I rather doubt it.