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Because the quality of the source code and the quality of the resultant binaries are two completely different things.


The source code is used to produce the "resultant binaries" so unless you have a very strange definition of "quality" the OP has a very valid question.


> a very strange definition of "quality"

Is it strange that, say, comments are stripped out of a binary? Or that the file names of the source files are not in there? These things are examples of aspects of quality that have no impact on the binary but make a big difference to the quality of the source.




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