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"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ev

• iudqnolq 7y ago
  Your link goes on to say that this doesn't mean the obvious. They say that cleverness isn't innate, and that writing code that you have trouble understanding later will force you to grow as a programmer > If we deliberately stay away from clever techniques when writing code, in order to avoid the need for skill when debugging, we dodge the lever and miss out on the improvement. We would then need other sources of motivation in order to grow as programmers, and if no such motivation appears, our abilities stagnate (or even deteriorate). I'm not experienced enough to guess if this is accurate, but I found it very interesting