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Clarity is great. Clarity is really most awesome. Myself, I write clean readable code because the person who has to read it the most is me. Where I utterly disa
by CalChris 10y ago
Clarity is great. Clarity is really most awesome. Myself, I write clean readable code because the person who has to read it the most is me. Where I utterly disagree with the SICP drivel is its only incidentally nod to efficiency. What fatuous gratuitous twaddle.
Programs are meant to be used and only incidentally for people to read. Some programs, we'll call them closed source, can't even be read, not even by Richard Stallman.
BTW, SICP was a required text in 61A when I took it. Required but then like many bibles, never assigned and never read. A few years later, I tried to but couldn't and so I sold my copy on Amazon. Got $25 for it.
- yadeas 10y agoMost often, program != code. And regardless of the intention, code are read many, many more times than it is written, especially when you work in a company with multiple teams and that is spread out on multiple sites. And in my experience, badly written code causes bugs because the original intention is not clear.