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In my experience ease of reading code is not a function of verbosity, but a function of familiarity. And in the general case verbosity and cleverness are ortho
by sfvisser 8y ago
In my experience ease of reading code is not a function of verbosity, but a function of familiarity.
And in the general case verbosity and cleverness are orthogonal properties.
- phakding 8y ago> In my experience ease of reading code is not a function of verbosity, but a function of familiarity. You would think so, sure. I used to write Perl code and I was extremely familiar with it and it used to be pretty easy for me to hack a script. Going back after couple of months and trying to understand it though, was a totally different animal. You can argue that it was my fault for writing bad Perl code, but ask any old farts who ever had to write Perl.
- cutler 8y agoPerl is an elegant, artfully designed language based on linguistic context. If you don't grok it don't use it.