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I spend more time thinking about the approach to the problem then churning out code. Take this example http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Maximum-Pad.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Maximum-Pad.aspx Either churning out over 300 lines of code or using a "for loop" solves the problem, but which approach is better? Sitting down to think about the for-loop or copy-paste-replace the code?