Code is written and read by humans, therefore it should be clear and concise. Cleverness should be used in constrained situations like performance (fast invers

Code is written and read by humans, therefore it should be clear and concise. Cleverness should be used in constrained situations like performance (fast inverse square root [1] comes to mind), and comments explaining the cleverness is important. I should note [1] did a terrible job at commenting. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root