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Someone once told me this is how they share source code between departments at some software shops in Japan.

I still refuse to believe this is true.

Well it’s not source code but my wife’s work print whatever they’ve worked on and it goes around the team while they make change requests one at a time using pen. Once they are happy they stamp it. So I could definitely see people printing source code…

I bet code reviews with markers are fun though.

I've done code reviews on paper, although mostly when I want to understand something, not for review purposes.

I used to carry a red pen at all times for that purpose. Very useful when people had some hardcopy.

That use-case died with the invention of virus-defined wfh.

I've printed long, MESSY, code, huge functions, to review and cleanup.

I loved working with engineers and using their plotter for that. Had a ton of space to actually write things out and draw connections.

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