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Code Is Not Technical Debt

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Someone is wrong on the Internet; he said that all code is technical debt, and I refute that.

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Software Engineering 2023

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Submitted	Title on HN	Points	Comments
Dec 21, 2023	Code Is Not Technical Debt by gavinhoward	138	141

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