i've often complained about "clever" code. simple code is easier to maintain, and clever tricks are difficult to read... speaking of difficult to read. please

i've often complained about "clever" code. simple code is easier to maintain, and clever tricks are difficult to read... speaking of difficult to read. please don't set examples with terrible single letter variable names. and terrible two letter variable names. these are even less forgiveable than clever tricks in my book. don't encourage abbreviating things. programming is about thinking about, reading and writing code a hell of a lot more than it is about typing.