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Re^3: "Cleverness" from HOPby BrowserUk (Patriarch) |
on Jun 11, 2009 at 17:21 UTC ( [id://770707]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Trouble is, one man's "significant advantage" is another's "too clever by half". All too often "clever code" is used as a synonym for "code I do not understand", and if you do not understand the code, then you almost certainly cannot perceive its advantages. I like simple. A lot. But even agreeing a definition of simple is anything but. For many, 'simple code' means step-wise and verbose--the explicit detailing of all intermediates--missing that concise & implicit code can simplify through the omission of extraneous intermediaries. to not write clever code just for the sake of clever code. "for the sake of", is there a more emotive, subjective, allusory phrase in our lexicons? Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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