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One of the most valuable things I got from university was my professor's saying, "When somebody tells you your code is clever or interesting, that's an insult."
by TallGuyShort 10y ago
One of the most valuable things I got from university was my professor's saying, "When somebody tells you your code is clever or interesting, that's an insult."
- AstralStorm 10y agoUnless it is an interesting algorithm or contains well documented optimizations. (with reasons for them, preferably grounded in measurements) Rules of thumb only go as far as your thumb. Sometimes a clever abstraction makes everything clean and obvious, as opposed to a dumb abstraction.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoAnd in my experience, like most insults, this usually says more about the person saying it than about your code.