#2138: Wanna See the Code?

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is walking, talking to Ponytail, who is offscreen.]

Cueball: I wrote a script to automate that thing.

Ponytail: Oh cool!

Ponytail: ...wait, you wrote it?

Ponytail: Oh no.

[Cueball and Ponytail are standing next to each other and talking.]

Cueball: Wanna see the code?

Ponytail: I would, if you hadn't said that in the tone of voice of "Wanna see a dead body?"

[Same scene as before, except Cueball has his hand on his chin.]

Cueball: My code is sort of similar to a dead body, in that you can either come look at it now, or wait a few weeks until it becomes a problem.

Ponytail: And because you're lucky that the people around you understand that they create more problems than they solve.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:And because if you just leave it there, it's going to start contaminating things downstream even if no one touches it directly.


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