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Re: "Cleverness" from HOPby eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) |
on Jun 11, 2009 at 21:51 UTC ( [id://770775]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In On Coding Standards and Code Reviews, I summarized this sentiment in two rules:
That is, I don't think you should ban cleverness, just discipline, comment and encapsulate it, so that your code base can be successfully maintained by a succession of many different programmers, with varying talents, over a period of many years.
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