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Hmm, I can't really write lisp, but, how maintainable is this?? https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http/blob/master/src/parse...


It could do with some comments and doc-strings certainly, but I'd give it a pass for now as it's a new project. As for the code, I imagine that in any language, highly optimised programs can start looking pretty odd after a while. Try understanding "grep" for example:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/src/grep.c

As a guy not particularly proficient in C, that looks crazy to me. Although it does at least have decent comments, which I'd expect for such a mature project!




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